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more about “Laminin“, posted with vodpod

Da geht einem Biochemiker doch das Herz auf!

Something for the biochemist’s heart!

Without Vision…

…the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18]

Wooohooo, I’m back to life and civilisation and daylight after more than a week of intense cramming for re-exams in General Biochemistry. Yes, first try I failed because I didn’t do much for this exam, because it was between two other exams (General Biology and Chemistry of Natural Products) in a time span of three weeks. One week preparation worked for each of these two exams but it would have never worked for the big thing in biochemistry… so, erm… well, I didn’t do much. With 20% preparation almost needless to say that I failed in August. Last Wednesday I had my 2nd try.But this time I eagerly crammed that stuff into my head: reading and outlining through almost all 1000 pages of Mr. Stryer’s heavy textbook, memorizing metabolism pathways and mechanisms and deepening my knowledge on the biochemical principles over and over and over…In contrast to the first try, I think, one of the most important changes now - three months later - is that I do have a vision to do what I’m doing and I know this is what God wants me to do. It wasn’t like this before. I’ve been seriously questioning these studies for more than a year. I’m gonna tell ya this: I almost dropped it to get into music. For real. I was ready to enroll at SAE, a private institute, for Audio Engineering. My loving parents even allowed me and would have supported me (thxs&hugs to mummy reading this;)). There was only one question: “Before I overturn everything - what is it that God wants me to do?”I know whatever the decision ahead might be, the best way is to ask the Holy Spirit and then decide. What profit is it to me when I gain the whole world, superficial pleasure, a bit of happiness and faltering satisfaction, but still have no peace, still have no fulfillment, still see no point… He knows better, what place I fit in and He knows better where I’m most effective for His Kingdom. He just knows all that, not only what’s good for me - surely music is a good opportunity or occupation and fruitful thing for me - but He knows what’s best. It’s better to go where He leads: to a place where it profits me and His Kingdom not only 99 percent but 100 percent!Back to the story. In October this year, when I started to ask God in prayer seriously if I should continue biochem, it turned out to be several weeks of questions… nothing… question… unclear answers… question… people saying different things… question… still no answer. That was weird! I mean normally you ask and you get the answer. Either it’s a clear out of the word answer or you just get it in your Spirit after praying and “rolling the word over” for a little time. Here I was, almost three weeks with absolute silence on the spiritual airwaves. But God is faithful! After both ideas - biochem and audio engineering - almost driving me nuts, I got an answer and I got peace about accepting that answer. Biochem. Thank God!You know, it’s much easier to walk the walk if you know you’re on the right track. You walk with a different motivation, you walk with more commitment, you walk more light-heartedly in contrast to a walk where you always ask the question “Is this the right way?”. That insecurity pulls you deep down whenever situations become a little difficult or pressurized. Without vision the people truly perish. But with vision and a purpose it’s so much easier to keep keeping on. Assuredness fuels determination. Determination fuels endurance. Endurance will make you reach the goal. (Since lately, I like cascades.)

Miracle is mine

On Wednesday I went into that professor’s room again for 30 minutes. But first let me tell some background happenings. It was said before that this prof will not give you better than a 2.0 in a re-exam, because it’s a repeat and everyone is under 2.0 if they failed the first one. Further, I didn’t attend lectures for about 1 and a half week to prepare, but I went to church as normal. However, there was one Thursday prayer meeting I planned to skip, because I needed every hour to work through that textbook. But when I prayed that day and asked what to do, I felt the Holy Spirit saying I should go there. So I went. A lil crazy, I know. At the end of our prayer meeting Pastor called me up and wanted to pray for my exams, saying “You’re around all the time, never missing out on church, You must be blessed!” and then he prayed the full dose, like - I mean - powerfully! Calling excellent results and wisdom and retentive memory and favour and telling me over and over that in Christ are hidden all the treasuries of wisdom and knowledge.Towards Wednesday afternoon my adrenaline level rose to dangerous heights. (By the way, I can tell you something about adrenaline and the G-protein mediated cascade of signal transduction that’s initiated by that hormon resulting in the breakdown of glycogen to provide glucose as energy source for the brain for example… ;)) After my two mates came out with 3.0 and 2.0 it was my turn and it went so cool and smuuf! Finally the prof called me to announce the grade and gave me a 1.3 - that’s AAAWWWEEESOMMEE. God is soooo faithful.

Healing IV: appendix - Heilung IV: Anhängsel

Concluding with some bizarre questions

1. God gave us brains, right? With these brains we can study. Some of us study medicine. Yup, I know you’re on the track, what my question is gonna be: Why do we have the ability to do researches on the functions of our bodies, the regulating processes and factors to eventually influence them by inventing and using medical drugs? So why not go to the doctor, he’ll say: “You have this and that. Take this and that.” And everything is well. Why not use the ability? I mean, I don’t believe God is against us becoming medical doctors! But when Jesus settled that issue… Imagine in the age to come there will be doctors who research the functioning of our resurrected bodies only, with no application for their researches Maybe to make us marvel about God’s creation… Hm. Will we become doctors at all… then…?
2. Did God create evil bacteria? (Sorry, for these bizarre questions, but I’m studying biochemistry, you know) I believe, everything that God created was good, not pathogenic! And I believe He created everything, even bacteria and viruses, because the devil can’t create. So what happened to this little living stuff. Was it taken to be used to hurt mankind after the Fall?
3. Why do we have an immune system when we were not created for sickness? (this is a profound one… to me… anyone out there who already asked God that or did a bible study on that… tell me… remember, it’s all because I do biochem, sorry ) I don’t think after the Fall God said “Let’s install an immune system now.” We were created with it, weren’t we? Was it because God knew we could… we would… Was it kind of provision. Oh…

Abschließend einige bizarre Fragen

1. Gott gab uns einen Verstand, ja? Damit können wir studieren. Manche von uns studieren Medizin. Jep, ich weiß, ihr seid auf der richtigen Fährte mit mir. Warum haben wir die Fähigkeit, die Funktionen unseres Körpers und die regulierenden Vorgänge und Faktoren zu erforschen, um in diese schließlich durch die Erfindung und Anwendung von Medikamenten einzugreifen. Warum nicht zum Arzt gehen und er sagt: “Sie haben dies und das. Nehmen Sie dies und jenes.” Und alles ist gut. Warum nicht die Fähigkeit gebrauchen. Ich glaube nicht, dass Gott dagegen ist, dass wir Ärzte werden. Aber wenn Jesus die Angelegenheit beseitigt hat… Stellt euch vor, im kommenden Zeitalter wird’s nur noch Ärzte geben, die die Funktionen unserer Auferstehungsleiber erforschen, ohne dass es Anwendung dafür gibt Vielleicht, damit wir über Gottes Schöpfung weiter staunen… Hm, werden wir dann überhaupt Ärzte?
2. Hat Gott böse Bakterien geschaffen? (Sorry, wegen der komischen Fragen, ich studiere Biochemie, wisst ihr) Ich glaube, alles, was Gott geschaffen hat, war gut nicht pathogen. UNd ich glaube, er hat alles geschaffen, auch Bakterien und Viren, denn der Teufel kann nichts schaffen. Also was ist mit dem kleinen, lebendigen Murks passiert. Wurde es nach dem Sündenfall benutzt, um der Menschheit zu schaden?
3. Warum haben wir ein Immunsystem, wenn wir nicht für Krankheit geschaffen wurden (die ist tiefgründig… für mich jedenfalls… irgendjemand, der schon mal die Bibel unter dem Aspekt studiert hat oder Gott das gefragt hat? Lasst’s mich wissen. Denkt dran, es ist alles nur wegen der Biochemie, sorry;-)) Ich denke nicht, dass Gott nach dem Sündenfall gesagt hat, “Lasst uns jetzt mal ein Immunsystem einrichten.” Wir wurden schon damit geschaffen, nicht? War es, weil Gott wusste, wir könnten… wir würden… War es eine Art Vorsorge? Oh…

Mating yeast - Hefe kreuzen

Yeast… you’re probably thinking of baking a cake or brewing beer. Now, the stuff you put in there - for those who are not so connected with biology - it’s alive! We did some yeast mating experiments last week during the practical training in genetics. That’s what I got out of it…

In the upper row you can see spots of haploid yeasts and the table beneath is showing the mated diploid results. Now, what does that mean? To make it simple (because it’s English ) You and I, we’re diploid, that means each of our 23 chromosomes has a partner, one you get from your Mom and the other one from your Dad. So it’s 46 altogether. The chromosomes of a pair carry genes that encode for the same characteristics, like your eye colour for example, but the code on each chromosome of a pair can be different, like blue and brown, because your Mom does not look like your Dad. Yeast is slightly different from humans. Apart from other differences I don’t want to list here, yeast can be haploid (single chromosome set) or diploid (double chromosome set). If you put together two different types of haploid yeast you get a diploid yeast. It’s so easy, isn’t it?! That’s what we did. You can ask Wiki for more.

The Colours
For those who are not yet bored I will explain the colours:

Iiieehh…

…bereite gerade Genetikversuche vor und was lese ich:

[...]DNA-Isolation aus eigenem, frischen Blut[...] Baaaah!

I’m preparing for experiments in genetics and I’m just reading:

[...]Isolating DNA from your own, fresh blood[...] Baaaaah!

What students do - Was Studenten tun

Students like me, that study biochemistry, 3rd semester. In their holidays they have to do practical training. And here’s what it looks like…
Studenten wie ich, die Biochemie im 3. Semester studieren. In den Ferien müssen sie Praktikum machen. Und so sieht das aus...

Today we synthesized Indigo, a colorant. This is the last part, oxidizing it.
Heut haben wir Indigo, einen Farbstoff, synthetisiert. Das ist der letzte Teil: Oxidation.

And of course we coloured some stuff. The bizarre thing about it is that you have to use the reduced form of Indigo in order to put it into a solvent so that you can actually put clothes in there and this is an absolutely not dark blue but kind of green or yellow clear soup. However, as soon as you take out the cloth immediately it turns blue because oxygen is oxidizing the Indigo again… Und selbstverständlich haben wir was eingefärbt. Das witzige daran ist, dass man die reduzierte Form des Indigo benutzen muss, um’s in ein Lösungsmittel tun zu können, so dass man überhaupt Sachen hineintun kann, und das macht eine ganz und gar nicht dunkelblaue, sondern gelbgrüne, durchsichtige Brühe. Aber sobald man den Lappen herausnimmt, wird er blau, weil der Indigo vom Luftsauerstoff wieder oxidiert wird…

Von Arznei, Liedzeilen und Bunsenbrennern

Just took the best medicine ever today: Listened to “Investigate” with repeat mode, threw away any plan concerning studying the word and read SoS. And prayed the hardest prayer you can pray in a situation where you wouldn’t dare to pray it at all… “Enjoy me, Father.” Sometimes I think this is too… don’t know how to describe it… too “IHOP” :o) However, it works. Now, few hours later I’m the happiest and most satisfied person ever, looking out of the window and wondering how people can do without Him. Maaan, I’ve got to tell them.
While enjoying Stu G endlessly shredding His guitar I got stuck to this holy fire line (Sorry, again I’m talking about lines in worship songs, but obviously my brain is working that way…) and my thoughts kinda went down this road of what kind of fire I want to have burning inside of me. I remember I had this idea some time ago. When I imagine this fire burning inside of me for God I don’t want it to be candle-like or camp fire-like or not even like a burning forest or whatever. I always think of that blue, hot, noisy flame that comes out of these gas burners in the lab. But you know what, to get this flame you really have to open wide the oxygen feed. So, to cut this story short… I need the oxygen resp. breath of heaven to have a blue, noisy flame for my Jesus burning inside of me.
That’s just antje’s (chemical) version of the “get oil for your lamps”-parable… Here we go into two weeks of practical training in organic chemistry!

Hab heut die beste Arznei aller Zeiten genommen: Hab grad Investigate mit Wiederholungsschleife gehört, alle Bibellesepläne über Bord geworfen und mir Hohelied reingezogen und das schwierigste Gebet gebetet, das man beten kann, wenn einem überhaupt nicht danach ist, zu wagen, das zu beten… “Freu dich an mir, Vater.” Manchmal denk ich, das ist zu… weiß nicht wie ich das beschreiben soll… zu “IHOP” :o) Aber, es funktioniert. Jetzt, paar Stunden später bin ich der glücklichste und zufriedenste Mensch der Welt, schaue aus dem Fenster und frag mich, wie Leute ohne Ihm können. Mann, ich muss denen davon erzähln.
Während ich so lauschte, wie Stu G ohne Ende seine Gitarre zerdrischt, bin ich an der “holy fire”-Zeile hängen geblieben (Sorry, ich schreib schonwieder über Liedzeilen, aber offensichtlich arbeitet mein Hirn so…) und meine Gendanken wanderten so in die Richtung, wie das Feuer, das ich in mir für Gott brennen haben will, sein soll. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich den Gedanken schon mal hatte. Wenn ich mir dieses Feuer vorstelle, das in mir für Gott brennt, dann will ich nicht, dass das wie ‘ne Kerze ist oder ein Lagerfeuer oder nicht einmal wie ein Waldbrand. Ich denke immer an diese blaue, heiße, rauschende Flamme, die aus dem Brenner im Labor kommt. Aber wisst ihr was?! Um solche Flamme zu bekommen, muss man die Sauerstoffzufuhr ganz aufdrehen. Also um das ganze kurz zu machen… Ich brauche den Sauerstoff resp. Atem vom Himmel, um eine blaue, rauschende Flamme für meinen Jesus in mir brennen zu haben. Das war also Antjes (etwas chemische) Version des “holt Öl für eure Lampen”-Gleichnisses… Auf geht’s zu zwei Wochen Praktikum in Organischer Chemie!

Blog Block kein Bock - Biochemie Buch

Ja, ich sollte vielleicht wieder mal was schreiben. viel arbeit wegen praktikum und semesterende und lernen. soll ich englisch oder deutsch oder gemischt schreiben? lese grad offenbarung 4 und es sprengt meinen verstand. müsste eigentlich protokoll schreiben und stereochemie lernen. will mehr flöte spielen aber keine zeit. habe neulich mein telefon in den schokopudding fallen lassen. is wordpress besser als blogger? okay, nu sinnig!

Habe diese Woche (endlich!) ein Biochemie-Lehrbuch gekauft. Englische Ausgabe - auf Anraten des Profs. Aber das ist so schlimm nicht. Vielmehr der Umfang. Ich sollte für den zukünftigen Umgang mit dem Schmöker anfangen, täglich einige Liegestütze zu machen. Und sonst: train my brain. Exams are ahead. Hab schon mal angefangen mir die hübschen Bildchen anzuschauen. Bildchen von hübschen, bunten, zerknäulten Enzymkomplexen, die mich zum Staunen bringen. In zweierlei Hinsicht:
1)Wie konnte Gott nur sagen “Es werde…” und “Es sei…” und all diese Details, die bis ins Letzte exakt passend und spezifisch sind und auf geniale Weise das ganze Geschöpf ergeben, das obendrein in der Lage ist mit seiner Umwelt, anderen Geschöpfen - im ehrfurchtsgebietendsten Fall mit dem Schöpfer selbst - zu interagieren, waren einfach mit eingeschlossen. Er sprach ein Wort resp. einen Satz und die Fülle Seiner Gedanken, die so schwer für uns ist (Ps.139,17), war darin eingeschlossen und wurde quasi vermittelt und wurde. Mein kleiner Verstand platzt.
2)Wie können Menschen sagen “Es ist kein Gott.”, “Es wurde evolutiv von selbst.” und behaupten, dass alle Geschöpfe, die bis ins letzte Detail exakt passend funktionieren, deren Komponenten auf unerhört spezifische Art und Weise miteinander wechselwirken, und die im ehrfurchtsgebietendsten Fall noch dazu in gewissem Maße intelligent sind, ohne eine Quelle der Intelligenz, ohne ordnenden Initiator aus einer zufällig ständig richtig gerührten Suppe hervorgegangen sind. Das ist, als ob mir die Scherben der Vase, die ich fallengelassen habe, wieder in Form der Vase in die Hände zurückspringen.

Yes, I know I should write something here. lots of work because of practical training and end of the semester and studying. should i write in english or german or mixed. i’m reading revelation 4 and it’s mind-blowing. i actually have to write reports and memorize some stereochem-stuff. i’d love to play my flute more often, but there’s no time. recently i dropped the phone into the chocolate pudding. is wordpress better than blogger. Okay, let’s get meaningful.

This week I (finally!) bought a biochem textbook. The English edition - like the professor recommended. But that’s not that bad. The weight is far worse. I should get used to some push-ups every morning if I want to start handling this book now:)… But first: train my brain! Exams are ahead. For now, I started to have a look at the beautiful pictures. Pictures of nice, coloured, twisted enzyme complexes, that make me marvel in two kinds of aspects.
1)How could God only say “Let there be…” and all these details, that are fitting exactly and specifically togther, ingeniously forming the whole creature, that is even able to interact with its environment - in the most awesome case with the Creator Himself -, were just included. He said one word resp. one sentence and the fullness of His thoughts, which is too heavy for us (Ps.139:17) was included in that, was conveyed and came into being. My little mind is bursting.
2)How can men say “There is no God.” and “Everything came into being on its own.” and say, that all creatures that function so accurately down to the last detail with incredibly specifically interacting components, creatures which are in the most awesome case even intelligent to some degree originated from some kind of an accidentally correctly stirred soup, without any source of intelligence, without any ordering initiator. That can be compared to the fragments of a jar jumping back into my hands in form of a jar.

Organik

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…übrigens ist heut Nikolaus.