Phase Transitions in Cell Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pollack, Gerald H. (Editor), Chin, Wei-Chun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Biochemistry, general.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Cell Biology.

Phase transitions occur throughout nature. The most familiar example is the one that occurs in water – the abrupt, discontinuous transition from a liquid to a gas or a solid, induced by a subtle environmental change. Practically magical, the ever-so-slight shift of temperature or pressure can induce...