Hello, everyone! My name is Kathleen Sweatt, and I am the author of this blog, which is dedicated to the development and support of research in biomedical science and chemistry. I have been involved in biomedical research for 5 years, working in a research institute.

I also love writing, so I decided to combine it with my profession. In my blog, I share useful information about research, write in simple words about complex things. I hope that my articles will be interesting to readers.

Today, the term “biomedicine” is often used, which is also reflected in the very concept of “biomedical ethics”. Modern bioethics is not just an extension of traditional medical ethics, but an entirely new field of knowledge associated with major changes in medical science and practice. One of the essential reasons for the formation of bioethics (or biomedical ethics) was the emergence of such a new phenomenon as biomedicine. So, what is biomedicine?

The term “biomedicine” has been used since the 1950s and became widespread by the turn of the XX-XXI century. It is used mainly in relation to the most high-tech, rapidly developing branches of life sciences, such as molecular genetics, bioinformatics, bioengineering, transplantation, and regenerative medicine. Moreover, this concept is in a sense synonymous with modern medicine in general.

As the name itself suggests, biomedicine is a kind of combination of biology and medicine. More precisely, biomedicine can be understood as a modern general medical attitude to the systematic application of fundamental biological knowledge and biotechnology to medical tasks of diagnosis, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, etc.

It is here that the most decisive discoveries and achievements are expected to take medicine to completely new frontiers. Thus, biomedicine is the central trend of modern medical progress.