Departmant of Biochemistry

Biochemistry is a sub-discipline of both biology and chemistry. It is a branch of science that analyses the structure and components of living organisms such as plants, animals and microorganisms and the chemical processes that take place throughout the life of living organisms at the molecular level. Biochemistry is a multidisciplinary field based on health and life sciences, which has led to the formation of new branches of science such as genetics and forensic medicine over time. Today, molecular biology encompasses traditional disciplines such as cell biology, enzyme biology and biotechnology as well as newer scientific fields such as genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. Biochemistry studies are intertwined with organic, inorganic, analytical chemistry and advanced molecular biology techniques. Determination of the differences observed in protein, RNA and DNA levels in normal and pathological conditions of the organism constitutes the basic subjects of Biochemistry. For this reason, Biochemistry plays an important role in the determination of the causes of diseases and in the design of drugs to be used in the elimination of these causes and in the determination of their target sites.