What is biophysics?

[MindfulEnt]

I've heard that biophysics is an interesting and rapidly growing field. However it seems that all the information I find on it is vague.

 

Does anyone know more about this?

 

Also, what use can it be? What can we do with it?

Edited September 26, 2016 by MindfulEnt

[CharonY]

For the most part it is the use of methods traditionally rooted in physics to examine biological phenomena. This can include e.g. theoretical models for e.g. simulating molecule interactions but also experimental techniques.

[Sriman Dutta]

Biophysics is an amalgam of biology and physics. It tends to use principles of physics to explain biological phenomenon.

In today's world, there is a good scope of biophysics, it is applicable in medical research work, equipment development, genetic engineering and so on.

[ajb]

As the others have said, biophysics is the application of the ideas from, and the philosophy of physics to biology.