title: Moving beyond molecular mechanisms.
abstract: A major goal in cell biology is to bridge the gap in our understanding of how molecular mechanisms contribute to cell and organismal physiology. Approaches well established in the physical sciences could be instrumental in achieving this goal. A better integration of the physical sciences with cell biology will therefore be an important step in our quest to decipher how cells work together to construct a living organism.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 gardel@uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Margaret L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Gardel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003585:Cell Biology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological