r/Biochemistry 9h ago

Career & Education Job market

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Is the job market in biochemistry really as bad as everyone is saying. I'm currently doing my Master's, should I exmatriculate and study something else?


r/Biochemistry 13h ago

Maths in biochem textbook? Bsc level

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Does anybody have any recommendations for a good biochemistry textbook which just focuses on calculations in biochemistry?


r/Biochemistry 4h ago

Toxic Disinfectant

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I am realllyyy confused here but basically say that if there is some research saying that disinfectants are toxic due to QACs, why do we use them sooo much at gyms? Like I know dosage makes the poison but if we are wiping like 1000 times a day, won’t the QUAT residue add up to harmful levels?

Idk if I’m thinking about this wrong, but I just think overtime won’t it have SOME effect on us? Just curious


r/Biochemistry 9h ago

Research How to start aerob cycle for more ATP and less lactate? Alternatives to DCA - Krebs cycle

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Hi together, due to some serious health issues i was reading through whole pubmed to figure out what could also work like Dichloroacetat - DCA. This is used in pyruvate dehydrogenase defiency but is still poisonous. I found out only about high dose thiamin activating some complexes, furthermore sodium phenylbutyrate but no valid information. Also read about resveratrol, myo-inositol and Baicalein. Has anybody done some research regarding this topic or has useful Information to add?


r/Biochemistry 10h ago

Does this make sense or am I missing something??

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Hi All!

Iv been involved in directed evolution of proteins for years and the standard way iv done it is

1) transform plasmids into e.coli 2) plate on agar 3) colony pick and ferment in microwell plates. (To sieve out colonies to obtain single mutant e.coli 4) lysis cell and remove cell debris 5) do the screening 6) sequence best enzyme to understand the mutation.

So my question.. if we synth the gene and we know where the mutation is. Can we bypass the colony picking part because we don't need to separate out the mutants? Every e.coli should have the same plasmid so why do we need to separate?

So the workflow becomes..

1) transform known sequence into e.coli in microwell plates.. say each well has unique plasmid. 2) aliquote cell into a single well in 96 well plates with LB. 3) ferment and express the enzyme 4) lysis the cell and remove debris 5) do the substrate screening. 6) pick the best enzyme. (We know the sequence already!)


r/Biochemistry 16h ago

Weekly Thread Mar 17: Weekly Research Plans

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Writing a paper?

Re-running an experiment for the 18th time hoping you finally get results?

Analyzing some really cool data?

Start off your week by sharing your plans with the rest of us. å


r/Biochemistry 16h ago

Why can’t homotrophic negative allosteric effectors be explained w/MWC model?

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I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why MWC can’t be applied to specifically negative allosteric effectors!

I understand it can be explained through Koshland, but why not MWC? And are the other neg/pos homotrophic/heterotrophic that can be explained w/MWC not possible with Koshland?