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Medical biology is a field of biology that has practical applications in medicine, health care and laboratory diagnostics. It includes many biomedical disciplines and areas of specialty that typically contain the "bio-" prefix such as:
- molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, embryology,
- nanobiotechnology, biological engineering, laboratory medical biology,
- cytology, cytogenetics, genetics, gene therapy,
- bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems biology,
- microbiology, virology, parasitology,
- physiology, pathology,
- toxicology, and many others that generally concern life sciences as applied to medicine.
Medical biology [1] is the cornerstone of modern health care and laboratory diagnostics. It concernes a wide range of scientific and technological aproches: from an in vitro diagnostics[2][3] to the in vitro fertilisation[4], from the molecular mechanisms of a cystic fibrosis to the population dynamics of the HIV virus, from the understanding molecular interactions to the study of the carcinogenesis [5], from a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) to the gene therapy.
Medical biology based on molecular biology combines all issues of developing molecular medicine[6] into large-scale structural and functional relationships of the human genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome with the particular point of view of devising new technologies for prediction, diagnosis and therapy [7]
See also
- medical physics
- medical chemistry
- biomedicine
- laboratory diagnostics
- The Human Genome Project[8][9],
- The Cancer Genome Atlas[10],
- The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
External links
- M.sc programme in Medical Biology
- Institute of Medical Biology
- The Department of Biomedicine - Master in Medical Biology
- Medical Biology at the University of Amsterdam
- Department of Medical Biology
- Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy
- CTS: The Clinical and Translational Science journal website
- Molecular Medicine website
- Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy at Lund University
References
- ^ Principles of Medical Biology
- ^ In vitro diagnostics
- ^ In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA
- ^ In vitro fertilization
- ^ Molecular aspects of cancerogenesis
- ^ Molecular medicine - magazine
- ^ Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead
- ^ Human Genome Project
- ^ Human Genome Organization
- ^ The Cancer Genome Atlas - projekt opracowania atlasu genomu raka
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