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 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
 - 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