hello everybody, since this week I have to talk to you about a free topic, I wanted to use this publication to talk about a study technique used in my professional career, and in fact I am talking about crystallography.
This technique is normally used to understand the shape and properties of crystalline solids, these crystals are very common for us as they are normally used in jewelry, food, construction, among other uses. Understanding how these solids behave is achieved through different methodologies, such as X-Ray Diffraction and Cryoscopic Crystallography.
But how this technique, used to understand mostly inorganic solids, can be related to biochemistry? Well that is very interesting, since living beings are composed of cells, and these cells to form their structures use biomolecules, and it is in the latter where there is a specific type of molecule, which has caused many problems to scientists to study them, and I'm talking about proteins, as these are complex molecules, Thanks to crystallography and its methodologies, it has made it easier to predict and understand how proteins form their structures, and what properties they gain and/or lose thanks to this, and how the chemical processes carried out at the cellular level can denature or alter them to fulfill another role or simply "destroy" them.
This type of technique that is normally used in other areas, as for example in geology, has been so decisive to understand one of the most important molecules, not only for people, but also for living beings, with this last I say goodbye and have a good week.
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