Life Sciences is an umbrella term with very broad meaning. It means the technologies applicable to the understanding of health and disease, whether in tiny microbes or in higher organisms including human beings. These technologies include molecular biology, which has come to be known as biotechnology, as well as the material sciences and information technologies. Biology is at the center of the life sciences but the biological sciences have merged with a wide variety of other sciences including medicine, agriculture, psychology and neurosciences.

In Bloomington, Monroe County and in surrounding counties there are many organizations involved in life sciences including businesses as well as governmental, educational and economic development organizations. You can find out more about them, and their significance for those of us who live in this area, by visiting their web sites: