Special Collection on Single Molecule Challenges in the 21st Century

Guest edited by Felix Ritort, Giulia Palermo and Fredrik Westerlund

Single molecule biophysics have revolutionized our tools, methods, and understanding of the inner workings of living matter. This special collection gathers contributions from relevant actors in the field. They employ exquisite accuracy of tools and methods learned from force spectroscopy, fluorescence, nanopore translocation, and theoretical and numerical modeling, among others. The unprecedented spatial and time resolution of these techniques has permitted the study of topics related to the energetics of fundamental biological interactions, the dynamic of biomolecular processes, and a large diversity of phenomena in living systems at the smallest scale. This special collection aims to gather the latest developments in the field, offering a glimpse of the future challenges that will expand our understanding of nanobiology and life. 

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Topics 

Nucleic acids and protein interactions - Chemically modified nucleic acids - Protein and ligand binding - RNA and protein folding - Replication, Transcription, Translation - Viruses – Membranes - Macromolecular machines - Receptors and Channels - Force spectroscopy techniques - Fluorescence methods - Nanopore translocation - Statistical physics methods - Numerical modeling

The Editorial Board would like to cordially invite you to contribute with a research article or areview/perspective for our special edition. QRB Discovery publishes new developments in the field of experimental and computational biophysics. Articles report on significant physical observations of relevance to biological systems, both experimental and theoretical, that may point towards an exciting direction, rather than the presentation of a traditional comprehensive study.

Your paper will go through peer review and we encourage you to contact Alison Paskins
(alison.paskins@cambridge-org.demo.remotlog.com) if you want to discuss your submission.

Accepted articles will be promoted through social media. 

For more information on how to submit see here and submit your manuscript here.

Submission deadline: 31st December, 2025

Submit your paper: ScholarOne Manuscripts (manuscriptcentral.com)

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