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How related is molecular biology to medical physics?

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vmdcruz | 1 year, 5 months ago
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Hello Tjaldrum,

Molecular biology is the study of plants and animals at a molecular level. This area of biology is particularly associated with genetics and biochemistry since it deals with the interrelationship between DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis and their manipulation. You must have heard of ‘expression cloning’. Well, this is a technique in molecular biology. Check this website for more information:
http://www.bionewsonline.com/b/what_is_molecular_biology.htm

Medical physics, on the other hand, is more of medical applications of physics. For example, X-rays, Radiation therapy, CAT scan, nuclear medicine, MRIs – are all medical physics applications used basically for diagnostic imaging and cancer treatment.

So, you use medical physics applications for researching molecular biology procedures. For example, scientists determine the high resolution structure of molecules using electron microscopy or X-ray crystallography that may help them design special peptide structures to aid medical research. The following Department of Medical Biophysics website might help you understand these concepts better.
http://medbio.utoronto.ca/program.html

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