其实, 百分之八十左右的生物物理研究者都来自于凝聚态物理. 在某种意义上, 生物物理是凝聚态物理在生命现象中的延续。这次到ICTP(国际理论物理中心)开会, 我发现这里的生物物理沿袭Solid State Physics的称谓, 叫做Physics of Living State. 其实这也很有道理.
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Kornyshev, A. (2001). Sequence Recognition in the Pairing of DNA Duplexes Physical Review Letters, 86 (16), 3666-3669 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3666