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Biophysics across time and space

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Understanding the behaviour of almost any biological object is a fundamentally multiscale problem — a challenge that biophysicists have been increasingly embracing, building on two centuries of biophysical studies at a variety of length scales.

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E.K.P. thanks K. J. Chalut for critical reading of the manuscript, and acknowledges funding from the Medical Research Council UK (MRC programme award MC_UU_12018/5).

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  2. Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London, UK

    Ewa K. Paluch

  3. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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