Kert Martma - What is Analytical Biochemistry?
Who wouldn’t be interested in the processes going on inside human beings – how a living organism works on the cellular level, what causes diseases and how to prevent and cure them. Kert Martma, researcher and lecturer of chemistry at TU School of Natural Sciences and Health, explains how this all has to do with chemistry.
Who wouldn’t be interested in the processes going on inside human beings – how a living organism works on the cellular level, what causes diseases and how to prevent and cure them. Kert Martma, researcher and lecturer of chemistry at TU School of Natural Sciences and Health, explains how this all has to do with chemistry. Chemistry is a science that looks into the metamorphosis of matter and the logic behind this process by looking into the composition and properties of substances.
Mankind has been dealing with chemical metamorphosis for ages. For example, processing ores from the earth into mineral, fermentation in wine making, cooking meat over open fire of the fire itself. All these are chemical reactions, metamorphosis of matter. During metamorphosis, bonds between elements break and new bonds are formed.
Today, we use chemistry everywhere, from domestic housekeeping to studying complex chemical processes of life.
Chemistry is an experimental science, where everything must be provable with tests and explained through theories, because only then can we consider a discovery to have scientific grounds.
When combining chemistry with the science that looks at life – biology - we get biochemistry, which studies the living nature through chemical analysis. Life is nothing else than a string of complex chemical reactions – a system that lasts from birth to death.
This information can help us improve the quality of our life, avoid health issues and in short – live longer.