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 an in vitro diagnostics to the in vitro fertilisation, 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, from a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) to the gene therapy.
Medical biology based on molecular biology combines all issues of developing molecular medicine 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.
See also
- Biomedicine
- Laboratory diagnostics
- Medical chemistry
- Medical physics
- The Cancer Genome Atlas
- The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
- The Human Genome Project
External links
- Medical Biology at the University of Amsterdam
- Medical Biology at the University of Warmia and Mazury
- Medical Biology at the University of Santo Tomas
- Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy at Lund University
- Clinical and Translational Science, a Wiley journal
- Molecular Medicine, a Feinstein Institute journal
References
- In vitro diagnostics
- In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
- In vitro fertilization
- 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.
- Molecular medicine - magazine
- Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead
- The Cancer Genome Atlas - projekt opracowania atlasu genomu raka
- Human Genome Project
- Human Genome Organization