title: Intellectual immigration.
abstract: The influx of physicists to the realm of biology around 1940 represented the birth of molecular biology. Now, with the sequencing of thousands of genomes and the promise of the $1,000 human genome, we find ourselves returning to physics. The cell is a foreign place, one that requires concepts from physics and statistical mechanics to gain a basic understanding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, 623 Fordham Hall, CB#3280, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Kerry_bloom@unc.edu
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bloom
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics; D003585:Cell Biology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers