Chemical Biology & Radiation Therapy

Essentials of Chemical Biology

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Chemical biology is a scientific discipline spanning the fields of chemistry, biology, and physics. It involves application of chemical techniques, tools, and analysis, and often compounds produced through synthetic chemistry, to the study and manipulation of biological systems. Chemical biologists attempt to use chemical principles to modulate systems to either investigate the underlying biological or create new functions. Research done by chemical biologists is often closely related to that of cell biology than biochemistry. Biochemists study the chemistry of biomolecules and regulation of biochemical pathways within cells and tissues, e.g. cAMP or cGMP, while chemical biologists deal with novel chemical compounds applied to biology.