Introduction to molecular biology in medicine modern molecular medicine encompasses the utilization of many molecular biological techniques in the analysis of disease disease genes and disease gene function the study of disease genes and their function in an unaffected individual has been possible by the development of recombinant dna and cloning techniques the basis of the term recombinant dna refers to the recombining of different segments of dna cloning refers to the process of . At the national conference on the application of molecular biology in medicine on april 7 scientists in the field of biochemistry molecular biology presented the results of research on the application of molecular biology in medicine 30 reports on molecular biology applications in medicine presented at the conference focused on topics such as genetic diagnosis by molecular biology using saliva specimens and automated methods detect and identify fungi in ent specimens by pcr testing . Manufacturing biological molecules insulin o produced by the pancreas a hormone that controls the level of glucose in the blood by controlling its uptake from the blood by cells o a deficiency of this hormone results in an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood diabetes. Discov med 2014 feb179281 91 molecular biology in medical oncology diagnosis prognosis and precision medicine aftimos pg1 barthelemy p awada a author information 1medical oncology clinic institut jules bordet universite libre de bruxelles brussels belgium biomarkers may have prognostic and or predictive value and have relied mainly on clinico pathological information