The term "biosciences" encompasses different scientific fields, such as biology, chemistry, physics, medical technology, pharmacy, computer science, nutrition sciences and environmental technology. Bio-scientific progress in areas such as biotechnology, for example, has given rise to new disciplines such as genetic engineering and promises to provide innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in the fields of medicine, food, agriculture and the environment.
Pharmaceutical industry:
The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand medications and medical devices. They are subject to a variety of laws and regulations that govern the patenting, testing, safety, efficacy and marketing of drugs.
Neurology:
(from
Greek: νεῦρον,
neuron, and the suffix -λογία
-logia "study of") is a branch of
medicine dealing with
disorders of the nervous system. Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the
central and
peripheral nervous system (and its subdivisions, the
autonomic nervous system and the
somatic nervous system); including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscle.Neurological practice relies heavily on the field of
neuroscience, which is the scientific study of the
nervous system. The Neurologist is a physician specializing in neurology and trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat
neurological disorders.
[2] Neurologists may also be involved in
clinical research,
clinical trials, and
basic or
translational research. While neurology is a non-surgical specialty, its corresponding
surgical specialty is
neurosurgery.
There is significant overlap between the fields of neurology and
psychiatry, with the boundary between the two disciplines and the conditions they treat being somewhat nebulous.
Clinical analysis:
Clinical chemistry (also known as
chemical pathology,
clinical biochemistry or
medical biochemistry) is the area of
chemistry that is generally concerned with analysis of
bodily fluids for
diagnostic and
therapeutic purposes. It is an
applied form of
biochemistry (not to be confused with
medicinal chemistry, which involves
basic research for
drug development).
The discipline originated in the late 19th century with the use of simple
chemical reaction tests for various components of
blood and
urine. In the many decades since, other techniques have been applied as science and technology have advanced, including the use and measurement of
enzyme activities,
spectrophotometry,
electrophoresis, and
immunoassay. There are now many
blood tests and
clinical urine tests with extensive diagnostic capabilities.
Most current laboratories are now highly automated to accommodate the high workload typical of a hospital laboratory. Tests performed are closely monitored and
quality controlled.
All biochemical tests come under chemical pathology. These are performed on any kind of
body fluid, but mostly on
serum or plasma. Serum is the yellow watery part of blood that is left after blood has been allowed to clot and all blood cells have been removed. This is most easily done by centrifugation, which packs the denser blood cells and platelets to the bottom of the centrifuge tube, leaving the liquid serum fraction resting above the packed cells. This initial step before analysis has recently been included in instruments that operate on the "
integrated system" principle. Plasma is in essence the same as serum, but is obtained by centrifuging the blood
without clotting. Plasma is obtained by centrifugation
before clotting occurs. The type of test required dictates what type of sample is used.
A large
medical laboratory will accept samples for up to about 700 different kinds of tests. Even the largest of laboratories rarely do all these tests themselves, and some must be referred to other labs.
Environmental management:
Treatment is so complex that it requires not faced all that entails or Environmental Management System (EMS) as a structured management system, integrated into the total management activities of the organization, which includes organizational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources to develop, implement, carry out, manage and update the commitments on environmental protection (environmental policy).
Hª Scientific and Technical:
Of the history of science and technology to understand the evolution and technological discoveries and processes to be followed before reaching the availability of instruments and current developments. It is also important to know the relationship they have had throughout history with other aspects of culture, society, politics, relationships and ideologies of each period.
Biology:
is the
natural science that involves the study of
life and living
organisms, including their
physical structure,
chemical composition,
function,
development and
evolution. Modern biology is a vast field, composed of many branches. Despite the broad scope and the complexity of the science, there are certain unifying concepts that consolidate it into a single, coherent field. Biology recognizes the
cell as the basic unit of life,
genes as the basic unit of
heredity, and
evolution as the engine that propels the creation of new
species.
Living organisms are
open systems that survive by transforming
energy and decreasing their local
entropy. to maintain a stable and vital condition defined as
homeostasis. See
glossary of biology.
Biology of reproduction:
The Biology of Reproduction is a scientific discipline within the field of Cell Biology that directly and, in a very important way, affects the society. The Biology of Reproduction provides knowledge about the cellular mechanisms involved in the reproduction of mammals, as well as on the practical applications of the manipulation of gametes and embryos and their repercussions both in the field of human reproduction and in the field of human reproduction. Animal reproduction and production.
Genetics:
is the study of
genes,
genetic variation, and
heredity in living
organisms.It is generally considered a field of
biology, but intersects frequently with many other
life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of
information systems.
The father of genetics is
Gregor Mendel, a late 19th-century scientist and
Augustinian friar. Mendel studied "trait inheritance", patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring. He observed that organisms (pea plants) inherit traits by way of discrete "units of inheritance". This term, still used today, is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a
gene.
Evolution
Evolution is the set of transformations or changes through time that have originated the diversity of life forms that exist on Earth, from a common ancestor.
The science that deals with the phenomenon of Evolution is Evolutionary Biology, an area of Biology that studies the ancestry and descent of the different species that populate or have populated our planet, as well as the changes that living beings experience throughout of time (biological evolution).
Biodiversity:
Biodiversity, a
portmanteau of "bio" (life) and "diversity", generally refers to the
variety and
variability of
life on Earth. According to the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), biodiversity typically measures variation at the
genetic, the
species, and the
ecosystem level.Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be greater near the
equator, which seems to be the result of the warm
climate and high
primary productivity.Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on
Earth, and is richest in the tropics. These tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10 percent of earth's surface, and contain about 90 percent of the world's species.
Marine biodiversity tends to be highest along coasts in the Western
Pacific, where
sea surface temperature is highest, and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans. There are
latitudinal gradients in species diversity.Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hotspots,and has been increasing through time,but will be likely to slow in the future.
Assisted reproduction:
Assisted reproduction or artificial fertilization is the set of biomedical techniques or methods that facilitate or substitute the natural processes that occur during reproduction.
immunology:
Professional activity is linked to Immunology in Autoimmunity and in Transplantation. Study of certain autoantibodies, their molecular characterization and their role, relationship or specificity with the clinic, the development of experimental models of systemic autoimmune diseases (systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatic autoimmune arthritis, systemic sclerosis, autoimmune myopathy ...) in mice. The analysis of anti-nuclear antibodies; aspects of autoimmune myopathies. - Study of immunological parameters of prognosis in the evolution of the patient with heart transplant. Projection on screen in case the institute or school does not have the necessary material (fluorescence microscope, cytometry,
Genetic engineering:
also called
genetic modification or
genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's
genes using
biotechnology. It is a set of
technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel
organisms. New
DNA is obtained by either isolating and copying the genetic material of interest using
recombinant DNA methods or by
artificially synthesising the DNA. A
construct is usually created and used to insert this DNA into the host organism. The first recombinant DNA molecule was made by
Paul Berg in 1972 by combining DNA from the monkey virus
SV40 with the
lambda virus. As well as inserting
genes, the process can be used to remove, or "
knock out", genes. The new DNA can be inserted randomly, or
targeted to a specific part of the
genome.
Molecular biology:
is a branch of
biology that concerns the
molecular basis of biological activity between
biomolecules in the various systems of a
cell, including the interactions between
DNA,
RNA,
proteins and their
biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.
Biochemistry:
sometimes called
biological chemistry, is the study of
chemical processes within and relating to living
organisms. Biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of
life.
A sub-discipline of both
biology and
chemistry, biochemistry can be divided in three fields;
molecular genetics,
protein science and
metabolism. Over the last decades of the 20th century, biochemistry has through these three disciplines become successful at explaining living processes. Almost all
areas of the life sciences are being uncovered and developed by biochemical methodology and research. Biochemistry focuses on understanding how
biological molecules give rise to the processes that occur within living
cells and between cells, which in turn relates greatly to the study and understanding of
tissues,
organs, and organism structure and function.
Biotechnology:
is the broad area of biology involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN
Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of
molecular biology,
bio-engineering,
biomedical engineering,
biomanufacturing,
molecular engineering, etc.
For thousands of years, humankind has used biotechnology in
agriculture,
food production, and
medicine.The term is largely believed to have been coined in 1919 by Hungarian
engineer Károly Ereky. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, biotechnology has expanded to include new and diverse
sciences such as
genomics,
recombinant gene techniques, applied
immunology, and development of
pharmaceutical therapies and
diagnostic tests.
Microbiology:
(from
Greek μ
ῑκρος,
mīkros, "small"; βίος,
bios, "
life"; and -λογία,
-logia) is the study of
microorganisms, those being
unicellular (single cell),
multicellular (cell colony), or
acellular (lacking cells).
[1] Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including
virology,
parasitology,
mycology and
bacteriology.
Eukaryotic microorganisms possess membrane-bound
organelles and include
fungi and
protists, whereas
prokaryotic organisms—all of which are microorganisms—are conventionally classified as lacking membrane-bound organelles and include
Bacteria and
Archaea.
[2][3] Microbiologists traditionally relied on culture, staining, and microscopy. However, less than 1% of the microorganisms present in common environments can be cultured in isolation using current means.
[4] Microbiologists often rely on
molecular biology tools such as DNA sequence based identification, for example 16s rRNA gene sequence used for bacteria identification.
Viruses have been variably classified as organisms,
[5] as they have been considered either as very simple microorganisms or very complex molecules.
Prions, never considered as microorganisms, have been investigated by virologists, however, as the clinical effects traced to them were originally presumed due to chronic viral infections, and virologists took search—discovering "infectious proteins".
The existence of microorganisms was predicted many centuries before they were first observed, for example by the Jains in India and by
Marcus Terentius Varro in ancient Rome. The first recorded microscope observation was of the fruiting bodies of moulds, by
Robert Hooke in 1666, but the Jesuit priest
Athanasius Kircher was likely the first to see microbes, which he mentioned observing in milk and putrid material in 1658.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is considered a
father of microbiology as he observed and experimented with
microscopic organisms in 1676, using simple
microscopes of his own design. Scientific microbiology developed in the 19th century through the work of
Louis Pasteur and in medical microbiology
Robert Koch.
possibilities for the study of pathogens, to deepen mycology, fungi, bacteriophages.