{"id":7392,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biophysics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:23","slug":"biophysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biophysics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biophysics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary branch of biology concerned with the application of physical principles and methods to the study of the structures and functions of living organisms. &nbsp;Most of the research traditions in biophysics were put into place through the work of PhD students in physics during the first half of the 20th century, a prime example being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/177\/2\/673.short\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/177\/2\/673.short&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Delbruck<\/a> (1906-1981) who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. &nbsp;Today, biophysicists can be found working in biochemistry, molecular biology, and neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"bioinformatics\">Bioinformatics<\/a>, <a href=\"biology\">Biology<\/a>, <a href=\"biochemistry\">Biochemistry<\/a>, <a href=\"discipline\">Discipline<\/a>, <a href=\"interdiscipline\">Interdiscipline<\/a>, Molecular biophysics<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary branch of biology concerned with the application of physical principles and methods to the study of the structures and functions of living organisms. &nbsp;Most of the research traditions in biophysics were put into place through the work of PhD students in physics during the first half of the 20th century, a prime example &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biophysics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biophysics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}