This balanced volume provides a broad and coherent overview of recent progress in membrane fusion research―highlighting an interdisciplinary treatment of the subject from the fields of biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology, virology, and biotechnology―in a single volume., Featuring easy-access sections on the general properties of membranes and applications of membrane fusion techniques, this valuable sourcebook outlines membrane structure, lipid polymorphism, and intermembrane forces … covers membrane fusion in model systems … presents the fusogenic properties of enveloped viruses … discusses the fusion and flow of intracellular membranes and cell-cell fusion occurring during fertilization and myogenesis … offers applications of membrane fusion techniques in cell-biological research and biotechnology … and more., Supplying a comprehensive view of this exciting topic, Membrane Fusion is a working resource for molecular, cell, and membrane biologists; biophysicists; biochemists; virologists; biotechnologists; microbiologists; immunologists; physiologists; and graduate and medical school students in biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, virology, cell biology, and biotechnology.