Medical biology explained

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]

Notes and References

1. https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/InVitroDiagnostics/default.htm In vitro diagnostics
2. http://www.edma-ivd.be/index.php?id=6 In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA
3. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;260/5110/932?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=%22in+vitro+fertilisation%22&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT In vitro fertilization
4. 20691260 . 10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.07.025 . 1802 . 11 . Untranslated regions of thyroid hormone receptor beta 1 mRNA are impaired in human clear cell renal cell carcinoma . 2010 . Biochim Biophys Acta . 995–1005 . Master . A . Wójcicka . A . Piekiełko-Witkowska . A . Bogusławska . J . Popławski . P . Tański . Z . Darras . VM . Williams . GR . Nauman . A. free .
5. http://www.molmed.org/ Molecular medicine - magazine
6. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;302/5644/400?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=%22gene+therapy%22&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead