Molecular Biology

About this course

Molecular biology is the science of the molecules that underlie life: the DNA that encodes genetic information, the RNA that carries and executes it, and the proteins that perform the structural and functional work of the cell. It is a discipline at the cutting edge of biological research, concerned with how chromosomes are organised and regulated, how genes are expressed and silenced, how cells divide and differentiate, and how errors in these processes lead to cancer, genetic disease, and infection. Understanding life at the molecular level is the foundation for almost every major advance in medicine and biotechnology. At St Andrews you will study this four-year programme full time, with a year abroad embedded in the degree. You will begin with the foundations of molecular and cellular biology before moving into specialist topics including chromosome structure and function, molecular

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