Biophysical Perspectives on Cancer: From Quantum Events to Collective Cellular Behavior
A special issue of Biophysica (ISSN 2673-4125).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2026 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite researchers to submit original scientific contributions for a forthcoming collection dedicated to the biophysical foundations of cancer. This Special Issue aims to highlight emerging conceptual and methodological advances that illuminate cancer not only as a genetic, mitochondrial, or biochemical disorder. Rather, we want to consider this phenomenon from the perspective of a complex, multiscale, multifractal, and dynamically evolving quantum nonlinear supramolecular system that interacts with electromagnetic fields.
Our goal is to assemble a collection that advances our understanding of cancer through rigorous biophysical inquiry, fosters dialog across disciplinary boundaries, and expands the frontiers of cancer research. Both theoretical and experimental approaches are welcome. We welcome submissions exploring quantum‑level events relevant to biomolecular interactions, energy landscapes, and reaction dynamics within cancerous tissues. Studies addressing collective behaviors of tumor cells—such as synchronization, emergent communication modes, interactions with electromagnetic fields, including clinical applications, mechanical cooperation, and coordinated invasion—are particularly encouraged. We are also interested in works that apply integrative frameworks bridging physics, biology, mathematics, and computer science, such as computational models based on algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, fractal geometry, and multiscale multifractal simulations.
Dr. Przemyslaw Waliszewski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum interactions
- bioelectricity
- DNA
- mitochondria
- mechanoreceptors
- microtubules
- self-organization
- cancer
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