Biophysics and Physicobiology

Biophysics and Physicobiology

Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal published officially by the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) for all areas of biophysics with either the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license or the CC BY 4.0 license, which is selected in accordance with the authors’ preference. Biophysics has long been developed in a field of physics using physical methods and theories to study the structures and functions of biological systems. The BSJ had originally published a journal, "Biophysics", since 2005, but changed its name in 2015 adding a word "Physicobiology". It is a new word, proposing that the scope of the journal could be widen to broader range of biologists and could further stimulate the exchange of ideas among the biophysicists. The details about the Journal and the Editorial board members are shown in the BPPB web page provided by the BSJ.

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Published by The Biophysical Society of Japan

771 registered articles
(updated on August 10, 2026)

Online ISSN : 2189-4779
ISSN-L : 2189-4779

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Volume 18 (2021) Issue Supplemental Pages S001-S002

Editorial: English translation of “The Oosawa Lectures on DIY Statistical Mechanics”

Editorial team for the Special Issue on Oosawa’s Lectures

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Dr. Fumio Oosawa (10th Dec 1922 – 4th March 2019), a pioneer of single-molecule studies, made a series of lectures on statistical mechanics at a summer school run by the Society of Young Scientists in Biophysics in July, 1996. Based on the lectures, the original Japanese textbook was published in 2011. Since then, the English version has been expected to be published. The Biophysical Society of Japan now publishes the English version in a Special Issue of the Biophysics and Physicobiology (Vol. 18), which is an open access journal, by the Editorial Team for this Special Issue. In December 2021, the Preface and first Chapter 1 were published. Chapter 2 and later will be published soon one after another.

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2026 Volume 23 Issue 3

Structured neighboring-sarcomere switching is coupled to variable-reach internal length redistribution during hyperthermal sarcomeric oscillations in living cardiomyocytes Seine A. Shintani
Effects of surfactants on luminescence intensity and duration of the minimal luciferase picALuc Yuki Ohmuro-Matsuyama, Kento Motoyama, Genta Kamiya, Ryogo Takai, Nobuo Kitada, Mitsuru Hattori, Shojiro A. Maki, Takeharu Nagai, Tadaomi Furuta
Theoretical study of KRAS G12C secondary mutations influencing inhibitor resistance Riksa Meidy Karim, Kazutomo Kawaguchi, Hidemi Nagao
Objective quantification of gait impairment in rats using automated video analysis Ekaterina Kukushkina, Dmitrii Traktirov, Viktoria Burdinskaya, Elena Lebedeva, Marina Karpenko

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Chlamylipo, a Chlamydomonas-in-liposome microswimmer: Self-propelled swimming and associated lipid membrane flow

Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2026 | Volume 23 Issue 2 e230019

Shunsuke Shiomi, Koichiro Akiyama, Hiromasa Shiraiwa, Sota Hamaguchi, Daiki Matsunaga, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Masahito Hayashi

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Molecular mechanisms of the high performance of spider silks revealed through multi-omics analysis

Released on J-STAGE: March 21, 2023 | Volume 20 Issue 1 e200014

Yasuha Watanabe, Kazuharu Arakawa

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LOV2-based photoactivatable CaMKII and its application to single synapses: Local Optogenetics

Released on J-STAGE: June 20, 2023 | Volume 20 Issue 2 e200027

Yutaro Nagasawa, Hiromi H. Ueda, Haruka Kawabata, Hideji Murakoshi

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Cytoskeleton as a generator of characteristic physical properties of plant cells: ‘cell wall,’ ‘large vacuole,’ and ‘cytoplasmic streaming’

Released on J-STAGE: July 30, 2025 | Volume 22 Issue 3 e220013

Amari Toshiki, Noriko Nagata, Motoki Tominaga, Hirotomo Takatsuka

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Zero-mode waveguides and nanopore-based sequencing technologies accelerate single-molecule studies

Released on J-STAGE: September 14, 2022 | Volume 19 Issue 0 e190032

Ryo Iizuka, Hirohito Yamazaki, Sotaro Uemura

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Biophysics and Physicobiology has been selected for coverage in ESCI and given the JIF.
As of 28th September, 2018, Biophysics and Physicobiology（BPPB), the international journal of the Biophysical Society of Japan, was selected for one of the Journals to be indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index in the Web of Science for journals of regional importance and of newly emerging fields. The journals in ESCI are collected in Web of Science and have an imporved visibility from the world. ESCI paves the way for the journals. In June 2023, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was given to BPPB. For the detail of ESCI and JIF, visit the website of Clarivate Analytics.

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