The Craft of Biochemistry“If you want to cure cancer, eliminate pollution from the earth or slow down the aging process, it will be biochemists. . . that will lead the way” (“Biochemists” 13). Biochemistry is the profession that studies the chemistry of living things and uses that knowledge to solve real-world problems (13). This career is challenging but interesting work. After researching biochemistry, I discovered that it is a field with a very diverse set of responsibilities, working conditions, and educational requirements; and my interest in becoming a biochemist is now more pronounced than before. One of the most important responsibilities of biochemists is to study the chemical composition of living things (13). They observe and study samples of food, drugs, tissue, air, water, plants, animals, and cells (“Biochemist” 14; “Biologists”). If the individual is a research biochemist, his job is just to write down the information he finds and move on. Applied biochemists use their research to solve real-life problems. They can use complex laboratory equipment to perform experiments, and it is even plausible that they can design their own experiments (“Biologists”; “Biochemists” 16). In my research, I found that there are three main fields of biochemistry, and each field has its own responsibilities. The three main fields of biochemistry are medicine, nutrition, and agriculture. Biochemists in the field of medicine have the widest range of responsibilities. They can do things ranging from mass producing life-saving chemicals, like insulin, to increasing fertility in humans or endangered animals. Medicinal biochemists also seek chemical explanations for problems, design and evaluate drugs, treat diseases, and increase immunity to some diseases (15). Nutrition is also a field of biochemistry. Nutritional biochemists study the chemical effects of food on the bodies of the creatures that consume it. In nutritional biochemistry, diet is compared to diseases, such as heart disease, to see if the diet affects the disease. Last but not least, biochemists can work in the field of agriculture. Their job is to help grow crops, genetically engineer crops, and prevent spoilage (16). All three major fields of biochemistry are different, but every biochemist's responsibility is to improve society by using the chemistry of living organisms. Despite the diversity of their responsibilities, biochemists have a uniform set of working conditions, depending on where they work.