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Currently the elucidation and explanation of living phenomena at a molecular level the field of molecular biology — is entering a new arena: the complex biology of human and their errors-the domain of medical enterprise. The fusion of molecular biology and medical research can be defined as ‘biomedical research’. Its potential is supposed to yield enormous impact to conquer diseases so far still a scourge of mankind, like cancer, coronary diseases, allergies, immune deficiencies and hereditary handicaps. Molecular genetecists and genetic engineers can tailor bacteria or cells of higher organisms capable of producing human proteins which play a key role in metabolic regulation, growth control and development of cell lineages and organs. The most far reaching approach in the production of new drugs includes the construction and modification of the brain’s special messengers, the neuropeptides, to control and master behaviourally deviating clients.
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Hohlfeld, R. (1993). The Argument about a New Paradigm for Health Research. In: Von Schomberg, R. (eds) Science, Politics and Morality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8143-1_9
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