The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, such as plants, animals, and human beings, as well as related considerations like bioethics. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specializations and new, often interdisciplinary, fields.
The following is an incomplete list of life science fields, as well as topics of study in the life sciences, in which several entries coincide with, are included in, or overlap with other entries:
- Affective neuroscience
- Anatomy
- Biomedical science
- Biochemistry
- Biocomputers
- Biocontrol
- Biodynamics
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics
- Biomonitoring
- Biophysics
- Biopolymers
- Biotechnology
- Botany
- Cell biology
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Computational neuroscience
- Conservation biology
- Developmental biology
- Ecology
- Ethology
- Environmental science
- Evolutionary biology
- Evolutionary genetics
- Food science
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Health sciences
- Immunogenetics
- Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Marine biology
- Medical devices
- Medical imaging
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Neuroethology
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
- Optometry
- Parasitology
- Pathology
- Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Population dynamics
- Proteomics
- Sports science
- Structural biology
- Systems biology
- Zoology
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or sciences:
“Yet they that know all things but know
That all this life can give us is
A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry—yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)