MicrobeWorld

I approached several physicists-some turned-biologists-to ask them for a brief comment on the topic: "In the long run, what will the discovery of the Higgs boson do for biology?" Their answers span the extremes from “nothing” to “everything.”

Comments from:

Joe Incandela, Dept. of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Suckjoon Jun, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego
Stefan Klumpp, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
David Nelson, Dept. of Physics, Harvard
Rob Phillips, Applied Physics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech