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 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]

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
• 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