title: Physics transforming the life sciences.
abstract: Biological physics is clearly becoming one of the leading sciences of the 21st century. This field involves the cross-fertilization of ideas and methods from biology and biochemistry on the one hand and the physics of complex and far from equilibrium systems on the other. Here I want to discuss how biological physics is a new area of physics and not simply applications of known physics to biological problems. I will focus in particular on the new advances in theoretical physics that are already flourishing today. They will become central pieces in the creation of this new frontier of science.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
authors.forename: José N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Onuchic
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century