Medical biology

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,
• 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 approaches: 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, 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

• Biomedicine
• Laboratory diagnostics
• Medical chemistry
• Medical physics
• The Cancer Genome Atlas^[8]
• The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
• The Human Genome Project^[9][10]

External links

• Medical Biology at the University of Amsterdam
• Medical Biology at the University of Warmia and Mazury
• Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy at Lund University
• Clinical and Translational Science, a Wiley journal
• Molecular Medicine, a Feinstein Institute journal

References

1. Principles of Medical Biology
2. In vitro diagnostics
3. In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA
4. In vitro fertilization
5. Molecular aspects of cancerogenesis
6. Molecular medicine - magazine
7. Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead
8. The Cancer Genome Atlas - projekt opracowania atlasu genomu raka
9. Human Genome Project
10. Human Genome Organization