Micro Swimming

Mark Haw [link] has interesting popular articles on swimming in micro-scale and physics of biological systems in that scale. Specially in reference to Purcell's
seminal article [pdf].

Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Financial Modelling

Biologically inspired algorithms (BIA) has a special place in heuristic modeling in many different fields of computational sciences, for example in materials simulations, AI, operational research among many others. A recent book covers the area of Financial Modeling using BIAs. Chapters about corporate failure prediction using grammatical evolution and ant colony are quite interesting. I think topic of failure prediction is closely related to resilience of a financial institution, see my earlier blog entry.

Need of physics in cell biology

Physics and cell biology used to be very distinct fields, but now a days, more and more theoretical physics oriented work force moved to this domain and life sciences, specially from statistical mechanics and complex systems point of view, and even people from string theory! A recent article that reviews this perspective appeared [link].
In the similar lines in the article [link] discussion on physics role in biology in generic terms explored. In a humorous way current funding policies are summarized : "all science is either biology or tool-making for biology or not fundable".