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For more than a century, the contrast between the complexity of life and the simplicity of physical laws has been a creative tension, driving extraordinarily productive interactions between physics and biology. From the double helical structure of DNA to magnetic resonance images of our brain in action, results of this collaboration between physics and biology are central to the modern understanding of life, and these results have had profound impacts on medicine, technology, and industry.
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This report aims to help federal agencies, policymakers, and academic leadership understand the importance of biological physics research and make informed decisions about funding, workforce, and research directions. Although the field is intellectually broad, unifying conceptual questions, in the physics tradition, help to organize exploration of the field.
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Funding structures, currently fragmented, need revision to respond to the full breadth and coherence of activity in the biological physics community. Fully realizing the potential of the field requires welcoming aspiring scientists from all over the world, and from all segments of our society, managing resources in ways that are both effective and just.
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