Authors: Aastha Acharya
Molecular pathology is based on the principles, techniques, and tools of molecular biology as they are applied to diagnostic medicine in the clinical laboratory. Molecular biology methods were used to elucidate the genetic and molecular basis of many diseases, and these discoveries ultimately led to the field of molecular pathology. As molecular research identifies the most fundamental causes and markers of disease, clinical testing of human and pathogen genetic material has become routine in laboratory medicine. Eventually the insights these tools provided for laboratory medicine were so valuable to the armamentarium of the pathologist that they were incorporated into pathology practice. Molecular pathology is a natural extension of anatomic and clinical pathology. As molecular research identifies the most fundamental causes and markers of disease, clinical testing of human and pathogen genetic material has become routine in laboratory medicine. Gene products, such as proteins and polypeptides, are molecules and could technically be classified within "molecular pathology."
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Graduate in Microbiology Degree. Interested in molecular biology , biotechnology and immunology.