Biophysics is a new, exciting interdisciplinary area with expanding career opportunities. The past 20 years have witnessed a revolution in biophysical sciences. Biology studies life in its variety and complexity. It describes how organisms go about getting food, communicating, sensing the environment, and reproducing. On the other hand, physics looks for mathematical laws of nature and makes detailed predictions about the forces that drive idealized systems. Spanning the distance between the complexity of life and the simplicity of physical laws is the challenge of biophysics. Looking for the patterns in life and analyzing them with math and physics is a powerful way to gain insights. Biophysics looks for principles that describe patterns. If the principles are powerful, they make detailed predictions that can be tested.

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