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The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, such as
microorganisms, 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.
Life Sciences is helpful in improving the quality and standard of Life. It has applications in health, agriculture,
medicine, pharmaceutical industry and food science industry.
The following is an incomplete list of the 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
Astrobiology
Biochemistry
Biocomputers
Biocontrol
Biodynamics
Bioinformatics
Biology
Biomaterials
Biomechanics
Biomedical science
Biomedicine
Biomonitoring
Biophysics
Biopolymers
Biotechnology
Botany
Cell biology
Cognitive neuroscience
Computational neuroscience
Conservation biology
Developmental biology
Ecology
Environmental science
Ethology
Evolutionary biology
Life sciences
Evolutionary genetics
Food science
Genetics
Genomics
Health sciences
Immunogenetics
Immunology
Immunotherapy
Marine biology
Medical devices
Medical imaging
Medical Sciences
Microbiology
Molecular biology
Neuroethology
Neuroscience
Oncology
Optometry
Parasitology
Pathology
Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacology
Physiology
Population dynamics
Proteomics
Sports science
Structural biology
Systems biology
Zoology
Scientific societies
Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
Life Sciences Switzerland
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