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The Role of Extra- and Intracellular Water in Signal Transduction in Living Cells
by Sinerik N. Ayrapetyan

Water Structure at Air–Aqueous Salt and Lipid Interfaces
by Heather C. Allen

Electrostriction at the microscopic level:
Hofmeister' series unveiled?
Fabio Bruni

Life without water: anhydrobiosis.
Jim Clegg

Ions in water: Lessons from the Hofmeister series.
Kim D. Collins

Vibrational modes within HEAT Repeats: a mechanism for interaction at a distance within cells?
Nigel Dyer

Taking Advantage of Relaxation Processes in Water near Biological Surfaces
Glenn Edwards

Hydration fingerprint in DNA recognition
Ágnes Tóth-Petróczy, Mihály Mezei, Roman Osman, István Simon and Monika Fuxreiter

How Water Meets a Hydrophobic Surface
Steve Granick

Solute-induced retardation of water dynamics probed directly by THz
spectroscopy
Martina Havenith

Composition of the liquid/vapor interface of aqueous salt solutions and the impact of organic surfactant layers
John C. Hemminger


Pushing the limits of direct force measurement in aqueous media: New insights from the extended surface forces apparatus
Manfred Heuberger

What Determine the Normal Water Content of a Living Cell?
Gilbert Ling

Aqueous systems are non-equilibrium self-organizing systems sensitive to weak external forces.
Valentin I. Lobyshev

Hydrogen bonding configurations in water and aqueous solutions from X-ray spectroscopy
Anders Nilsson

Water in wood: getting the simple things right
Michael L. Roderick, Sandra L. Berry, Martin J. Canny

Long-Range Water Structuring at Interfaces
Jian-ming Zheng, Eugene Khijniak, Wei-Chun Chin, Hyok Yoo, and Gerald H. Pollack

Water Spectroscopy at Solid/Liquid Interfaces: Hydrogen Bonding and Local
Structure
Diedrich Schmidt, Michio Niwano, Kazushi Mikic Schmidt

Large-scale supramolecular structures
Marián Sedlák

Molecular adsorbates and ferroelectric nanostructures: a 'memorable' combination
Jonathan E Spanier

THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL, A PUZZLING PHENOMENON: A ROLE FOR WATER ?
Yolene Thomas

A model for active streaming: novel implications for the physics, chemistry and biology of water.
Reuven Tirosh

Studies on Novel Confinement-Induced Properties of Water Molecules in
Extended-Nano Spaces on a Microchip
T. Tsukahara, A. Hibara, and T. kitamori

Apolar-polar Competition for Water of Hydration Drives Protein Function
Dan W.Urry

Water aggregates in the Earth's contemporary and prebiotic atmosphere
Veronica Vaida

FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF WATER IN BIOENERGETICS
Vladimir L. Voeikov

”Autothixotropy” of Water -
an Unknown Physical Phenomenon
byPavel Voracek and Bohumil Vyb¶ral

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