Exploring the Physics of Basic Medical Research: Insightful Essay by Professor Vahid Sandoghdar in Physical Review Letters
The 20th century witnessed the emergence of many paradigm-shifting technologies from the physics community, which have revolutionized medical diagnostics and patient care. However, fundamental medical research has been mostly guided by methods from areas such as cell biology, biochemistry, and genetics, with fairly small contributions from physicists.
In his essay in Physical Review Letters, the Managing Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light outlines some of the key phenomena in the human body that are based on physical principles and explains how these determine our health over a wide range of length and time scales.
Professor Sandoghdar illustrates that research in life sciences can greatly benefit from the methodology, know-how, and mindset of the physics community and that the pursuit of basic research in medicine is compatible with the mission of physics.
Read the full essay in Physical Review Letters here.
(https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.090001)
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