Medical biology

Medical biology is a field of biology that has practical applications in medicine, health care and laboratory diagnostics. It includes many Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Wikipedia[biomedicine|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 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[1][2] to the in vitro fertilisation,[3] 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,[4] from a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) to the gene therapy.

Medical biology based on molecular biology combines all issues of developing molecular medicine[5] 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.[6]

See also

• Biomedicine
• Laboratory diagnostics
• Medical chemistry
• Medical physics
• The Cancer Genome Atlas[7]
• The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
• The Human Genome Project[8][9]

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. In vitro diagnostics
2. In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
3. In vitro fertilization
4. Master, A; Wójcicka, A; Piekiełko-Witkowska, A; Bogusławska, J; Popławski, P; Tański, Z; Darras, VM; Williams, GR; Nauman, A (2010). "Untranslated regions of thyroid hormone receptor beta 1 mRNA are impaired in human clear cell renal cell carcinoma" (PDF). Biochim Biophys Acta. 1802 (11): 995–1005. doi:10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.07.025. PMID 20691260.
5. Molecular medicine - magazine
6. Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead
7. The Cancer Genome Atlas - projekt opracowania atlasu genomu raka
8. Human Genome Project
9. Human Genome Organization