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 contains 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 concerned a wide range of scientific and technological approaches: from in vitro diagnostics [1] [2] to in vitro fertilisation, [3] from the molecular mechanisms of cystic fibrosis to the population dynamics of HIV, from understanding molecular interactions to the study of carcinogenesis, [4] from a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) to 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 a particular focus on devising new technologies for prediction, diagnosis, and therapy. [6]
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