Molecular biology
Molecular biology is concerned with understanding processes in living organisms at a molecular level, as well as the chemical and physical structure of macromolecules. Molecular biologists focus on studying nucleic acids, proteins and the molecular basis of genetic processes. Understanding the structures and functions within individual cells has many key benefits, including enabling more efficient drug target identification.
It first became institutionalized in the 1950s and 60s, combining the work of geneticists, physicists and chemists investigating genetic inheritance. The Central Dogma of molecular biology was proposed in 1958 by Francis Crick who discovered the structure of DNA along with James Watson. Crick described how information is transferred from DNA to proteins via RNA through an irreversible process.
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