In addition to its importance as a biological phenomenon, defective apoptotic processes have been implicated in an extensive variety of diseases.

His work seeks to understand consciousness as a biological phenomenon.

Just as new species are named when they are discovered, he says, naming new biological phenomena also makes them available for further study by others.

It focuses mainly on physical, chemical, and biological phenomena and processes in structures of sizes comparable to a few nanometers.

However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (biological phenomena) over a wide range of scales, from biophysics to ecology.