Molecular pathology is an emerging discipline within
pathologyPathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and whole bodies...
which is focused in the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of molecules within organs, tissues or bodily fluids.
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Molecular pathology is an emerging discipline within
pathologyPathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and whole bodies...
which is focused in the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of molecules within organs, tissues or bodily fluids.
Molecular pathology shares some aspects of practice with both anatomic pathology and clinical pathology,
molecular biologyMolecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
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biochemistryBiochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
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proteomicsProteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, as they are the main components of the physiological metabolic pathways of cells. The term "proteomics" was first coined in 1997 to make an analogy with...
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geneticsGenetics, , a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding...
, and is sometimes considered a "crossover" discipline.
It is multi-disciplinary in nature and focuses mainly on the sub-microscopic aspects of disease.
It is a scientific discipline that encompasses the development of molecular and genetic approaches to the diagnosis and classification of human tumours, the design and validation of predictive biomarkers for treatment response and disease progression, the susceptibility of individuals of different genetic constitution to develop cancer and the environmental and lifestyle factors implicated in carcinogenesis
http://www.molecularpathology.org.uk/.