The integrated teaching of Molecular Biology and Clinical Pathology will provide the student with the fundamentals of Molecular Biology and Pathology and will allow the student to translate the basic knowledge acquired into clinical diagnostic applications. The main methodologies used in molecular, biochemical, and cellular diagnostics will be presented, and the conceptual approaches according to which they have been developed will be explained.
Different types of tests based on the determination of DNA, RNA, proteins, or metabolites will be introduced and discussed to identify specific pathophysiological states and the main disease markers that measurable in a clinical laboratory will be studied.
At the end of the course the student will have acquired the basic elements in the clinical diagnosis of the main pathologies, will be able to use laboratory procedures by applying the experimental method, analyze and correctly interpret experimental data both in the healthcare field and in research and cooperate in clinical reasoning.