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Most physicists have kept their distance from living cells for good reason; they are just too complex. It is a long jump from a two body problem to cellular mechanics. However, the enormous advances made in polymer physics in recent years has greatly narrowed the distance between these two fields. As can be seen from the accompanying chapters in this volume, highly talented physicists are now working with biological polymers and molecular motors and are finding that the behavior of these complex systems are no longer beyond their reach. This is tremendously exciting because we will never fully understand life without defining its physical basis. At the same time, enormous advances have been made in the area of molecular cell biology. For example, the human genome project has led to the discovery of incredible numbers of new molecules and genes as well as many useful chemical reagents. However, we still do not understand how these molecules join together to form living cells that can change shape, grow, and move. This question of how life is structured is the ultimate problem in biology and solving this riddle will likely require the effort of physicists as well as biologists.
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Ingber, D.E. (1998). Tensegrity and the Emergence of a Cellular Biophysics. In: Beysens, D.A., Forgacs, G. (eds) Dynamical Networks in Physics and Biology. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03524-5_6
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