Blogging

Usually, I really like to write in moments that I feel sad, tired or even happy. It helps me to carry on and forget the things that could mess up my day. In fact, one of the things that I love about writing and all that includes letters is poetry; I guess that is a very personal but powerful escape route from the bad things.

In general, this blogs had allowed me to improve my grammar in writing , play chess, and I could feel free respecting what I'm writing about although some days I didn't have the motivation, or the inspiration (like today) to write about something in special. Anyway, the most of the days that I was writing blogs I laugh a lot with some posts of my classmates and the images that they put in their blogs.

If you ask me what do I would like to write about in the future, I guess that I would answer "about chess". Well you would wonder why chess; because chess is one of the games that the most of the people have heard about but only a few know how to play it "well". But what they don't know is the interesting history behind this "boring" game that only some "geeks" are able to play. In the future, I'd add some kind of free theme to give a little of variety to this blogs... but only once.

Finally, I only hope to have many chess matches left in my life and keep enjoying writing.

Some Notions About CRISPR-Cas9 Technique

One of the most important applications of Molecular Biology is the capacity of manipulation of some organisms genome. This has been used as a very important tool for different purposes like gene therapy.

Beneath this context there are a lot of techniques that are used in a very diverse fields. Within this, we could refer to PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), Electrophoresis, etc. Inside all this techniques developed some years ago, we can find one that's a pretty little younger: CRISPR-Cas 9.

Well, ¿What's that? In a simple way (i'ts a very complicated techinque such as the most of Molecular Biology techniques are), it allows to us to alterate and manipulate the genomic expression of an organism (particularly, a bacteria) using some chemical cutters as "molecular scissors" in the DNA. This could (and in the practice it does) allow to develop some anti-viral or pathological bacteria  mechanisms at a molecular scale. 

I knew of this technique during a molecular biology that I made during the school. In fact, that was the reason why I started to read some papers (in English) and started the scientific literature reading. Since this I improved my reading capacity and now I'm able to, at least, understand what are telling me while I'm talking about science with a scientist or someone who dominates the science.

I guess that this technique, for me as a pharmacist , brings to me the job to develop the molecular tools which are necessary for use CRISPR-Cas 9 and I choose it because is a beautiful way to play to be god. For the humans, this could mean a great advantage in the struggle against the viruses and diseases.

My Currently Enjoyable Subject

During my short life as a student I've always loved Biology. I used to say that I wanted to be a mad scientist when I grow up, and from then to now only remain to become a scientist hehe. But the years keep passing and during that time I understood that if I wanted to study the Biology at the level that I want (molecular Biology) I must comprehend the Chemistry behind all that mechanisms. So I decided to immerse myself in the Chemistry world. At the point in which Chemistry became my second favourite subject; I reach the point of being able to imagine what is happening inside a molecular system (when I discover it i felt very excited) and, through just logical steps, solve a lot of problems. For a while I participated in the National Chemistry Olympics and in the Chemistry Academy of my school, all because of once I helped some classmates for a test and I realized that I could easily interpret the process inside that; then I never quit to this subject.

But that's now in the past. Nowadays I'm rediscovering this subject at some deeper levels, the classes combine the theory with laboratory applications (and that's pretty good!) but just in the paper and, with the time, this has become a little boring. Despite this, I'm still in love with Chemistry (not as I love Biology but well, I can't be always perfect) and I keep the curiosity about discovering new things that I will be able to apply in a future.

The Scientist that I admire

There's a lot of scientist which I could speak because of my admiration for them. But there's one who I could say "I'd like to be as him", and his name is Bruce Alberts.

Alberts is a badass of the cellular biology. He was born in 1938, in Chicago, USA. He studied Biochemstry at Harvard, place that, also, has granted him his Biochemistry Ph.D in 1965. He has worked in the Princeton's Department of Biochemical Sciences and later in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, is the chief editor of the Science magazine 

During his life, he has studied principally the proteins that allows the chromosomal and DNA replication. He served to as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (1993-2005), and he is very compromised with the improvement of the scientific education. This is one of my personal reasons why I like his work, besides this, he has the greatest book of cellular biology (a really backache because its weight).

As anecdote, I met him once he came to Chile visiting a program of portable laboratories program that belows to Jorge Allende (another big scientist) and in which my school was participating. So, as the president of the Biology Academy, it was my work to receive him in te biology labs of my school.

I can remember that that opportunity I said "I don't have to be a genius to become a great scientist", and he felt really fascinated at hear that one young boy could say that about science in general... But that he never knew was that this cute innocent young dreamer will pass from a really mad amateur chemist:





To a very stressed and death inside poor Pharmacy student like this: