TY - BOOK ID - 145594483 TI - The physical microbe : an introduction to noise, control, and communication in the prokaryotic cell AU - Hagen, Stephen J. AU - Morgan & Claypool Publishers AU - Institute of Physics (Great Britain) PY - 2017 SN - 1643278916 1681745291 9781643278919 9781681745299 PB - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, IOP Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Prokaryotes. KW - Biophysics. KW - Prokaryotic Cells. KW - SCIENCE / Physics / General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145594483 AB - Physical biology is a fusion of biology and physics. This book narrows down the scope of physical biology by focusing on the microbial cell; exploring the physical phenomena of noise, feedback, and variability that arise in the cellular information-processing circuits used by bacteria. It looks at the microbe from a physics perspective, asking how the cell optimizes its function to live within the constraints of physics. It introduces a physical and information-based (as opposed to microbiological) perspective on communication and signalling between microbes. ER -