The breadth of biochemistry
In this course we have only been able to touch upon a few examples of topics in biochemistry, and there are many others in which biochemists are making significant developments. …
Course: Biochemistry: the Molecules of Life
Research and career focus: Prof Grant Wheeler – biochemistry and developmental Biology
Grant Wheeler is Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at UEA and here he describes his research interests and career path. Grant explains why biochemistry assists in providing a molecular …
Biochemical Society videos: varied careers that involve biochemistry
Up to now our careers articles have focused on a range of jobs that link to further studies and research involving biochemistry. A training in biochemistry also provides opportunities to …
Research and career focus: Professor Matthew Terry – plant biochemistry
In the next in our career-focused films we meet Matthew Terry, Professor of Molecular Plant Biology at the University of Southampton. Here he describes his background and research and explains …
Synthetic biology explained
From selective breeding to genetic modification, our understanding of biology is now merging with the principles of engineering to bring us synthetic biology. The international nature of scientific research is …
Plants v Explosives
We have already seen that the combination of biochemistry and synthetic biology methods is offering novel ways to solve problems across the world. Some of these solutions are occurring in …
Natural products as antibiotics
Here, we highlight how natural products provide many of the medicines that are widely used today. What are natural products? Many of these natural products come from strains of bacteria …
Analysing results from the vitamin C experiment
In the previous step we performed an experiment that measured the amount of vitamin C in fruit or vegetable juice. Now that we have some data from the experiment, we …
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a vital nutrient and we all need enough of it in our diet if we are to stay healthy. Along with some other animals, we have to …
Measuring vitamin C
The experiment outlined below allows measurement of the levels of vitamin C in any solutions. The experiments will measure the levels of the vitamin in aqueous solutions (i.e. samples made …
Natural antioxidants: Vitamin C
Many natural products found in foods directly influence reactions that are involved in cellular metabolism. This is the case for some of the vitamins that are found widely in foods, …
Research & career focus: Professor Anne-Marie Minihane – Biochemistry and diet
Prof Anne-Marie Minihane from the Norwich Medical School, UEA describes why there is a close link between biochemistry and nutrition. Further details about the current research focus of Prof Minihane …
Natural products: Current research
Biochemical methods will provide key advances in assisting healthy living and in improving pharmaceutical technologies. Over the next steps of this course, we highlight this by discussing the importance of …
Timeline for biochemistry: natural products and the molecular sciences
During the final week of this course we focus attention on natural products and molecular and cellular biology. Within week 1 we heard how the era of molecular biology stems …
Research & career focus: Dr Janneke Balk – Bioenergetics and biochemistry studies in plants
In the next of our career-focused films we meet Dr Janneke Balk, a Reader in the School of Biological Sciences at UEA. Her research group is based at the John …
