pThe fascinating area of molecular medicine provides a molecular and cellular description of health and disease. Starting with the understanding of gene regulation and epigenetics, ii.e.i, the interplay of transcription factors and chromatin, this book will provide an fundamental basis of nearly all processes in physiology, both in health as well as in most common disorders, such as cancer, diabetes as well as in autoimmune diseases. Most non-communicable human diseases have a genetic inherited as well as an epigenetic component. The later one is based on our lifestyle choices and environmental exposures. Many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, can be explained only to some 20 iviai a genetic predisposition. bWe cannot change the genes that we are born with but we can take care of the remaining 80 being primarily based on our epigenomeb. Therefore, there is a high level of individual responsibility for staying healthy. Thus, not only biologists and biochemists should be aware o