Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
1 Molecular communication - crackling phone lines
2 How dynein works and other motor proteins
3 How brains work – wiring and consciousness
4 Spike trains and the senses – the mouse’s whiskers
5 Elastic turbulence – gloopy chaos
6 How mucus works – the twenty one mysteries in man
7 Synthetic biology – reengineering bugs and molecules
8 Missing instruments - grease monkeys required
9 The structure of carbohydrates – the perfect chip
10 Evolution and antibiotics – bugmageddon
11 The regulation of expression in DNA – huge uncertainties in genetics
12 The origin of sub-diffusion inside cells - everything’s gone fractional
13 Microrheology - the unexplored continents
14 Quantum phenomena in biology – the role of chunks
15 The structure of membranes – uncharted factories
16 Drug delivery – gene therapy and other stories
17 A good model for polyelectrolytes – bootstrapping with a many body problem
18 The activity of hearts – the pump that quivers