Outline of biophysics
overview of and topical guide to biophysics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to biophysics:
Biophysics – interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physics to study biological systems.
Nature of biophysics
Biophysics is
An academic discipline – branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.
A scientific field (a branch of science) – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published.
A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
A biological science – concerned with the study of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
A branch of physics – concerned with the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force.
An interdisciplinary field – field of science that overlaps with other sciences
Scope of biophysics research
Biomolecular scale
Biomolecule
Biomolecular structure
Organismal scale
Animal locomotion
Biomechanics
Biomineralization
Motility
Environmental scale
Biophysical environment
Biophysics research overlaps with
Agrophysics
Biochemistry
Biophysical chemistry
Bioengineering
Biogeophysics
Nanotechnology
Systems biology
Branches of biophysics
Astrobiophysics – field of intersection between astrophysics and biophysics concerned with the influence of the astrophysical phenomena upon life on planet Earth or some other planet in general.
Medical biophysics – interdisciplinary field that applies methods and concepts from physics to medicine or healthcare, ranging from radiology to microscopy and nanomedicine.
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