Understanding the behaviour of almost any biological object is a fundamentally multiscale problem — a challenge that biophysicists have been increasingly embracing, building on two centuries of biophysical studies at a variety of length scales.
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E.K.P. thanks K. J. Chalut for critical reading of the manuscript, and acknowledges funding from the Medical Research Council UK (MRC programme award MC_UU_12018/5).
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Paluch, E.K. Biophysics across time and space. Nature Phys 14, 646–647 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0206-9
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