BMC Biophysics

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Alberto Diaspro, Italian Institute of Technology
Gerhard Gompper, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Volkhard Helms, Saarland University
Jonathon Howard, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Werner Kremer, Universität Regensburg
Jorg Langowski, Division Biophysics of Macromolecules
Sanford Leuba, University Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dimitrios Morikis, University of California
Terrence Oas, Duke University
Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland
Emad Tajkhorshid, Beckman Institute
Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland
Rebecca Wade, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Matti Weckstrom, University of Oulu
Wei Yang, Florida State University
Huan-Xiang Zhou, Florida State University

Executive Editor

Simon Harold, BioMed Central

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Chromatin influences transcription factories

Chromatin can act as a multi-block copolymer with active-inactive monomers that spontaneously self-organize to form microdomains, demonstrating that geometrical constraints alone can potentially yield an organized transcription factory.

BMC Biophysics 2013, 6:2
Piecing together the puzzle of virus self-assembly

Computational modeling of the way that viruses are able to self-assemble their protein capsid coats suggests that for complex viruses with more stable bonds, a piecemeal hierarchical assembly process is most likely.

BMC Biophysics 2012, 5:22
Mechanical properties of chromatin, revisited

A zig-zag model of chromatin fiber morphology is able to quantitatively explain the mechanical properties of chromatin under external stress, and provides an alternative explanation to the widespread solenoid model interpretation.

BMC Biophysics 2012, 5:21
Shedding light on shell super-structures

The hierarchical super-structure of abalone mollusc shells can be revealed by conventional light microscopy methods, opening the potential to study shell growth mechanisms in vivo at high resolution.

BMC Biophysics 2012, 5:19
Intracellular chemical gradients in bacteria

Robert Endres discusses a new study in BMC Biophysics that supports the emerging view that intracellular chemical gradients can exist in bacterial cells, and how these may limit in vitro analyses.

BMC Biophysics 2012, 5:18
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Editor's comment - further coverage of this research

Comment on: Kök et al. BMC Biophysics 2012, 5:10
Membrane vesicles shedding

Comment on: Gonzalez et al. BMC Biophysics 2010, 2:7

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BMC Biophysics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in experimental and theoretical aspects of biological processes from the microscopic to macroscopic level, including thermodynamics, structural stability and dynamics, molecular biophysics, signalling, novel biophysical methods and computational biophysics.

It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.