The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field.

Biological Water.- Dynamics of Water at Low Temperatures and Implications for Biomolecules.- Anomalous Behaviour of Supercooled Water and Its Implication for Protein Dynamics.- Interactions of Polarizable Media inWater and the Hydrophobic Interaction.- Protein and Biological Solutions.- Metastable Mesoscopic Phases in Concentrated Protein Solutions.- Application of Discrete Molecular Dynamics to Protein Folding and Aggregation.- Cooperative Effects in Biological Suspensions: From Filaments to Propellers.- Transport and Replication.- A Thermodynamic Description of Active Transport.- Energy Interconversion in Transport ATPases Role of Water in Ions Transport and in the Energy of Hydrolysis of Phosphate Compounds.- A Novel Mechanism for Activator-Controlled Initiation of DNA Replication that Resolves the Auto-regulation Sequestration Paradox.- Activity-Dependent Model for Neuronal Avalanches.