Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The course aims to provide the basic notions to:
1. outline the general picture of cellular metabolism
2. know and explain the biochemical mechanism of normal biological phenomena at molecular, sub-cellular, cellular and tissue level

At the end of the course the student will know: the functional role of proteins and enzymes, the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins and will be able to explain the major mechanisms of metabolic regulation at cellular and organ level. The biochemistry course will give the knowledge for the understanding of biochemistry in the clinical diagnostic field. At the end of the course the student will know: the structure of nucleic acids and replication, transcription and translation processes and their control mechanisms. The molecular biology module will give the student the knowledge for the understanding of molecular biology in the clinical diagnostic field.