A Singular Focus
A Singular Focus © Wolfgang Kumm / Corbis A physicist looks at photosynthesis, replication, and viral entry, molecule by molecule. By Antoine van Oijen Article Extras 1 turned out to be an important one for me. It caught the attention of many researchers in the community, and was cited more than 200 times. More importantly it gave me a little bit of insight into biological systems. Even though I had limited interaction with biolog
May 1, 2008
A Singular Focus

© Wolfgang Kumm / Corbis
A physicist looks at photosynthesis, replication, and viral entry, molecule by molecule.
1. A. van Oijen et al., "Unraveling the electronic structure of individual photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes," Science, 285:400-2, 1999.
2. J.B. Lee et al., "DNA primase acts as a molecular brake in DNA replication," Nature, 439:621-4, 2006.
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