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Acknowledgments

I have learned three things from writing this book. (i) The book wrote

itself as much as I wrote it, since it took about 3 years instead of 1 as

I originally planned. (ii) The content of the book expanded to include

all of the key results of my research dating back to the early 1970s,

whereas my original intention was to cover only those new develop-

ments since my first book. The Molecular Theory of the Living Cell,

published by Springer, New York, in 2012. (iii) The social and environ-

mental effects on book writing cannot be ignored. I feel extremely

fortunate to have had the physical and mental health and the opportu-

nity to devote the last 45 years of my career continuously in various

universities in the USA and a research institution in Germany to bio-

medical researches focusing almost exclusively on one central concept,

the conformon defined as the mechanical/conformational strains of

biopolymers storing the energy, and information necessary and suffi-

cient to generate goal-directed forces to drive all molecular processes

underlying life on the cellular level.

Many individuals have contributed either directly or indirectly to the

birth of the present book. My parents, Eung E. Ji (1914–1993) and Bok

Nyo Keh (1919–2005), of course, who raised a family of 10 (five sons and

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