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Life Science

Bioeconomy

One of the types of science that deal with the structure and behaviour of living things, such as botany, zoology, biochemistry, and anthropology.

Cambridge English Corpus, accessed on 12 February 2025

Source Category: Dictionaries

Wide scientific domain that encompasses various fields, including: 

  • Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics (Molecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms and interactions, biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics, signalling pathways)
  • Genetics, ’Omics’, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Molecular genetics, quantitative genetics, genetic epidemiology, epigenetics, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, systems biology)
  • Cellular and Developmental Biology (Cell biology, cell physiology, signal transduction, organogenesis, developmental genetics, pattern formation and stem cell biology, in plants and animals, or, where appropriate, in microorganisms)
  • Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology (Organ physiology, pathophysiology, endocrinology, metabolism, ageing, tumorigenesis, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndromes)
  • Neuroscience and Neural Disorders (Neural cell function and signalling, systems neuroscience, neural bases of cognitive and behavioural processes, neurological and psychiatric disorders)
  • Immunity and Infection (The immune system and related disorders, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases)
  • Applied Medical Technologies, Diagnostics, Therapies and Public Health (Development of tools for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases, pharmacology, clinical medicine, regenerative medicine, epidemiology and public health)
  • Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (Population, community and ecosystem ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology)
  • Applied Life Sciences, Biotechnology, and Molecular and Biosystems Engineering (Applied plant and animal sciences, forestry, food sciences, applied biotechnology, environmental and marine biotechnology, applied bioengineering, biomass and biofuels, biohazards)

Europen Research Council, Evaluation Panels and keywords, 2020

Source category: Agency Documents