Concluding remarks

Abstract

Traditionally biochemistry is a field of life sciences that deals with the physicochemical properties and functions of biological molecules. It also contains vast amount of already established and currently developing techniques of analysis at the molecular level. A central problem of present-day biochemistry is, however, rather to clarify the molecular mechanisms of function, development and differentiation of cells, tissues, organs and multicellular organisms. On the other hand, scientists working in other fields of life sciences such as developmental biology, immunology, neurobiology and genetics are also trying to explain the vital phenomena in terms of biochemistry or molecular biology. Thus, various fields in the life sciences are now overlapping, with biochemistry being the common ground.