ImmunoPhysics and ImmunoEngineering

• Other Authors: Bernardino De La Serna, Jorge (Editor), Mellado, Mario (Editor), Garcia-Parajo, Maria (Editor), Loran Dustin, Michael (Editor), Morikis, Dimitrios (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2020
• Subjects: Science: general issues; Physics; immunophysics; immunoengineering; T cell biology; biophysics; cell membrane; cell sensing and remodeling; super resolution (SR); quantitative imaging
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

ImmunoPhysics (ImmPhys) and ImmunoEngineering (ImmPhysEng), are two cross-disciplinary fields. ImmPhysEng aims to unravel quantitatively the immune-system function and regulation in health and disease. Whereas ImmPhys study and assess the physical basis of the immune response, ImmEng pursues its control and prediction. Ultimately, the overarching goal of these disciplines is to facilitate the development of therapeutic interventions to more precisely modulate and control the compromised immune response during diseases. Lately, these disciplines are becoming more popular and as such, the number of publications applying physical or engineering tools to understand the immune response is increasing. Nevertheless, there is still no scientific forum compiling the ImmPhysEng research breakthroughs. Possibly the biggest burden is to stimulate a fluent communication and syntony between a physicist or engineer and an immunologist.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (390 p.)

ISBN

978-2-88963-570-2
9782889635702

Access

Open Access