Hello from Hanna:
"I never pictured myself as a blogger, as I prefer to talk about wired subjects that doesn't necessarily interest the general public. Subjects like physics, math, biocompatability and so on. Lucky for me ZP wanted to start a blog within one of our projects. The blog was going to tell the world about FishTag, what it is, how it works and why it is such an amazing little thing.
I take a bit of pride in fact checking, as I don't want to commit heresy in regard to science. Most of the time used on this blog is spent double checking the facts and correcting them if I got it wrong."
We at Zimmer & Peacock are proud to be working here. ZP deliver World Class products and services in electrochemical biosensing and IVDs to our clients and collaborators. We have the same high standards for our blog. If you read it here, it should be true. All scientific facts and principles have been re-read before writing them here.
When a statement is written in the blog is has been cross-checked by the authour to multiple reliable sources. When this has been done for the whole post, it's sent to be proof read by a senior staff member. He/She will correct spelling, flow and again: control the facts.
Before the post about Stress Measurement With Biomarkers (Here), the project manager of FishTag gave the author a call. The reason was because of the term "glycogenolysis", which is very close to "gluconeogenesis". Glycogenolysis is the process where glycogen is broken down into glucose, where as gluconeogenesis is the process where anything other than carbohydrates (e.g. fat, amino acids...) is synthesized into glucose.
Another term close to the ones above is "glycolysis", which is the process of breaking down glucose molecules into pyruvate, and "charging up" ATP and NADH. The bodys "energy currency" is ATP.
Fun fact: Glycogenolysis needs phosphatase enzymes to break down glycogen and produce glucose. Gluconeogenesis does not. There is no phosphatase enzymes in the muscles. This means gluconeogenesis CAN happen in muscle cells, where as glycogenolysis cannot.
ZPs team is an amazing, helpful gang of scollars. They are educated in a variety of different fields, each with his or her own area of expertice. In addition, we have an ask-culture where no questions are stupid and all deserve a response. This is part of what makes ZP equipped to cover many fields and be inovative: ZP have many good heads who want to share their knowledge.
That being said: If you spot some misinformation, please feel free to contact us and let us know. We'll correct it and learn from our mistakes! Until next time,
Hanna T. Bråthen
Engineer at ZP
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