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WHAT IF ol’ man river is trying to tell everyone something important but the masked singe is not taken seriously or not many choose to see beyond face value ..

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#BioChem + Wind = THE WALL has always meant so much more, #SHIELD .
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Hi Everyone! My name is Chiamaka & I’m taking over this week! I’m a 3rd yr #PhDcandidate & #cardiacelectrophysiologist at @UMPharmacology. I got my B.S. in #biochem from @GeorgiaTech & my M.S. from @UMich_MCDB. I’m also a @FulbrightPrgrm ambassador & founder of @fulbrightnoir. Image
For the past few yrs my research focused on how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. Our questions boiled down to: how do bacteria evade drugs designed to kill them? Understanding defense mechanisms in bacteria can help us design better drugs to treat bacterial infections.
Now I'm investigating ways to treat heart dysfunction by targeting the #hERG potassium channel. I use #wholecellpatchclamping to record electrical activity of beating heart cells (see pic) in real time which informs us of healthy or abnormal behavior. It’s pretty dope! Image
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The body has a glucose-based economy because that is the main fuel that circulates & what the brain prefers. This is not an argument to eat refined sugar, which is clearly bad, it’s just a fact. DNA & RNA are built from forms of ribose. How do cells convert glucose to ribose? /1
They use NADP+ & the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). This also produces NADPH and the power to build cellular materials and signaling molecules with the captured electrons #redox #wondersofnature #biochem #NADtwitter /2
No synthetic organic chemist of any skill level can convert glucose to ribose-5-phosphate with the efficiency of the humblest bacterium #enzymes #coenzymes #metabolism #NAD
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