Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Decadal Survey of Biological Physics/ Physics of Living Systems . A report by the National Academies. On Wednesday I attended a National Aca...

In Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model . Myocardial cells are typic...

Numerical Recipes , by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I oft...

The Annotated Hodgkin & Huxley , by Indira Raman and David Ferster . I have always loved the classic set of five papers published by H...

The goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and the goal of this blog, is to explore the interface between physics, medicine...

One topic that appears over and over again throughout Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is cancer . In Section 8.8, Russ Hobbi...

Harry was born and raised in England and attended the best schools. After excelling at Summer Fields School , he won a King’s Scholarship t...

When I was measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon in graduate school, I wondered if I should worry about a nerve’s inductance . Put a...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . In last week’s blog post , I told you about the recent death of Howard Berg , author of Random Wa...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . Look up at the picture of books at the top of this blog, showing my ideal bookshelf . You see Int...