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Medical biology

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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:

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]

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  1. ^ In vitro diagnostics
  2. ^ In vitro Diagnostics - EDMA Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ In vitro fertilization
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Molecular medicine - magazine
  6. ^ Gene Therapy - New Challenges Ahead
  7. ^ The Cancer Genome Atlas - projekt opracowania atlasu genomu raka
  8. ^ Human Genome Project
  9. ^ Human Genome Organization