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Molecular medicine
Pronunciation
Definition 1
A branch of medicine that develops ways to diagnose and treat disease by understanding the way genes, proteins, and other cellular molecules work. Molecular medicine is based on research that shows how certain genes, molecules, and cellular functions may become abnormal in diseases such as cancer. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
The branch of medicine that tries to understand disease processes by understanding the way that genes, proteins, and molecules interact; also concerned with genetically based treatments. (NCI Thesaurus)
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