Biochemistry

Biochemistry

My future career goals are to get accepted in a Graduate school for study MD and PhD in Biochemistry. But no matter what are your future goals is important search information and have knowledge about the field that you want to study. Now, let’s talk about briefly how this idea of study biochemistry evolved  and what is this field.

Briefly, this idea evolved in this way:

I have to say that my parents suffer fibromyalgia disease. This disease does not have cure and it can be hereditary, etc... I took a class of chemistry and was my lab teacher the person who inspired me to study biochemistry to can help my parents. I like biology and chemistry so why not? Then I look for information and I concluded definitely to study it.

Biochemists have to understand both the living world and the chemical world. Even if you don’t want to become a biochemist, you'll still have to understand atoms and molecules as a biologist. The key thing to remember is that biochemistry is the chemistry of the living world. Plants, animals, and single-celled organisms all use the same basic chemical compounds to live their lives. Biochemistry is not about the cells or the organisms. It's about the smallest parts of those organisms, the molecules. It's also about the cycles that create those biological compounds.

In other words, biochemistry is the branch of science that explores the chemical processes within and related to living organisms. It is a laboratory based science that brings together biology and chemistry. By using chemical knowledge and techniques, biochemists can understand and solve biological problems. Biochemistry focuses on processes happening at a molecular level. It focuses on what’s happening inside our cells, studying components like proteins, lipids and organelles. It also looks at how cells communicate with each other, for example during growth or fighting illness. Biochemists need to understand how the structure of a molecule relates to its function, allowing them to predict how molecules will interact.

     Biochemistry covers a range of scientific disciplines, including genetics, microbiology, forensics, plant science and medicine. Because of its breadth, biochemistry is very important and advances in this field of science over the past 100 years have been staggering. It’s a very exciting time to be part of this fascinating area of study.

What do biochemists do?

·         Provide new ideas and experiments to understand how life works

·         Support our understanding of health and disease

·         Contribute innovative information to the technology revolution

·         Work alongside chemists, physicists, healthcare professionals, policy makers, engineers and many more professionals

To conclude, my purpose to show you my experience is because sometimes we know that we like more than one field and we think that we cannot fusion them or study them all. That is totally false!! Now I exhort you to look for information of all the fields that you like and see how you can mix them because that is totally possible.

Do not forget see the video and if you want to know more about biochemistry go to my references. (Copy and paste the link)

References:

1.      http://www.biochemistry.org/?TabId=456

2.      http://www.chem4kids.com/files/bio_intro.html

3.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBAmzQ_pUE

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiRStrWg5k8&ebc=ANyPxKo5uMRSXIkuOTFdFTSDirfgBmQn1qtGhGiq1aKuYnxFTpk_r6WeRF0QLEP80YGad8z2dV9UyhCiQV1gv1u005Ocg6B7WQ