Biophysics > Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
- See also pages that link to Biophysics or to this page.
Parent topics
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
- Natural science [r]: The study of nature using the scientific method. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
Subtopics
- Experimental biophysics [r]: The experimental study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Theoretical biophysics [r]: The theoretical study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Bioacoustics [r]: The study of acoustic signals as produced and perceived by living systems, namely animals [e]
- Biological thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of macromolecular, living systems [e]
- Biomechanics [r]: The study of the mechanics of biological systems [e]
- Biomedical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically or biologically relevant objects. [e]
- Cellular biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies relevant to biological cells. [e]
- Electrophysiology [r]: The study of electric charges in an organism, particularly in its nervous system. [e]
- Environmental biophysics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Membrane biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies relevant to biological membranes. [e]
- Molecular biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems at the molecular level. [e]
- Organ biophysics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Photobiophysics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radiation biophysics [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- High priority Biophysics articles in Citizendium
- Astrobiology [r]: The study of life in the universe. [e]
- Autotrophy [r]: The capacity of an organism to feed on inorganic materials. [e]
- Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the diversity of life. [e]
- Bioengineering [r]: The application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical, nuclear and other engineering principles to understand, modify and control biological (plants and animals - including human) systems. [e]
- Biofilm [r]: Layers of organic material composed of and produced by microorganisms. [e]
- Biohazard [r]: A biological system that may pose a danger to health. [e]
- Bioinformatics [r]: The study of (usually molecular) biological systems by computational means. [e]
- Biological hierarchy [r]: Life from atoms and molecules to cells to organisms, populations and ecosystems [e]
- Biological imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of biological objects. [e]
- Biological membrane [r]: An amphiphilic envelope of cells and subcellular structural units. [e]
- Biological signalling [r]: The exchange of signals within and between biological systems. [e]
- Biomineralisation [r]: The study of minerals produced or maintained by biological systems. [e]
- Bionics [r]: The application of biological principles in technical design. [e]
- Biophysical economics [r]: The study of economic systems as a kind of metabolism, using biophysical methods from biological thermodynamics and ecology. [e]
- Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production [e]
- Chemical equilibrium [r]: The stage of a chemical reaction in which the forward and backward reactions level out. [e]
- Chemical evolution [r]: The change over time in chemical reaction systems [e]
- Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
- Cognition [r]: The central nervous system's processing of information relevant to behaviour. [e]
- Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
- Computational morphology [r]: The study of biological structures by computational means [e]
- Cryobiology [r]: The study of living organisms, organs, biological tissues or biological cells at low temperatures. [e]
- Cytoskeleton [r]: The mechanical scaffold, made up of fibrous proteins, determining the shape of a cell. [e]
- Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. [e]
- Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
- Enzyme kinetics [r]: The time course of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Extremophile [r]: Organism living, or at least surviving, under biologically extreme conditions. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Heterotrophy [r]: An organism's feeding on organic materials. [e]
- Hydration [r]: The uptake of water. [e]
- Hyphenated science [r]: A scientific discipline that originated from contact between two separated fields, like bio-physics. [e]
- In vitro [r]: Under experimentally manipulated conditions. [e]
- In vivo [r]: Within the living organism. [e]
- Locomotion [r]: The self-powered movement of an organism. [e]
- Magnetic resonance [r]: A property that magnetic nuclei have in a magnetic field and applied electromagnetic (EM) pulse, which cause the nuclei to absorb energy from the EM pulse and radiate this energy back out. [e]
- Mathematical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by mathematical means. [e]
- Medical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically relevant objects. [e]
- Medical physics [r]: The study of medical problems with methods borrowed or derived from physics [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Metabolic control theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Microscope [r]: An instrument that magnifies the image of small objects such that they become observable by humans. [e]
- Microtubule [r]: Tubular protein structures important for cellular transport and cytoskeleton [e]
- Model species [r]: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. [e]
- Molecular biology [r]: The study of molecular interactions within cells. [e]
- Muscle [r]: Animal tissue type to generate power for locomotion. [e]
- Negentropy [r]: The entropy living systems must dispense to stay away from thermal equilibrium [e]
- Neural code [r]: The signaling system used by nerve cells [e]
- Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. [e]
- Nucleic acid [r]: A class of macromolecules important in conveying genetic information. [e]
- Occupational medicine [r]: The field of medicine concerned with diseases related to professional activities, and their prevention. [e]
- Origin of Life [r]: How, when and where did life start? [e]
- Phospholipid [r]: A class of fatty acids commonly found in biological membranes [e]
- Photosynthesis [r]: Scientific term for the conversion of sunlight into energy by plants [e]
- Physical chemistry [r]: The application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems within the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics. [e]
- Ribozyme [r]: A ribonucleic acid with catalytic activity. [e]
- Spectroscopy [r]: The study of a system or object by means of selected frequency bands in the electromagnetic spectrum. [e]
- Steady state [r]: A situation with constant system properties despite non-vanishing energy flow. [e]
- Structural biology [r]: A branch of biology concerned with identifying the three dimensional shape and interactions of biological macromolecules. [e]
- Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling [e]
- Systems biology [r]: The study of biological systems as a whole. [e]
- Systems theory (general) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems [e]
