[State of the medicine 2011].
During many centuries the scientific knowledge has advanced in a slow and discontinue manner, with much time to deposit the established things and to generate theories and hypothesis about the unexplained and unknown matters. However, in the last decades happened an exponential increase in the knowledge of Medicine, because the technological advance and the contribution of several disciplines, which produce the development of Health Sciences. In the last 60 years Medicine has progressed faster than in the previous twenty centuries, which make very difficult to describe the events happened in this period. Thus, we have established a relationship between the development of communication in different facets of our own life and the biocommunication facts happening in our cell molecules to generate its functions. Alterations of these activities may explain the pathological modifications observed in disease. Also, we have considered this topic under general aspects, such as, role of the image in the Medicine development, appearance and development of Molecular Biology, human genome project, Molecular Medicine, animal models to study human diseases, molecular basis of cancer, genic and cell therapies and genes and aging. Also, we have analyzed the great technical and conceptual advance of Medicine through several specialities such as, Biochemistry,Hematology, Microbiology, Immunology, Histology, Pathology,Pharmacology, Radiology, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Oftalmology.
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
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Blázquez Fernández
D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D062346:Molecular Medicine; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction