The Amino Acid Story

The Structure of Amino Acids How life formed on planet Earth is not known by science. The fossil record shows the existence of Archaea and Bacteria in rocks that are very old. It also suggests that there was a “prebiotic world” when the Earth was just...

The Bacterial Realm

The Hidden Realm The Hidden World That Shapes Our Lives Bacteria are essential to life on Earth.  They are found in virtually every environment imaginable, from the depths of the ocean to the human gut. They play critical roles in maintaining ecological balance and...

A Tale of Two Cosmoses

The Human Cell (An Artist’s Impression) Like a man born into a world shaped by history and social structures, a cell is born into the intricate micro-environment of a tissue – which is even more structured. It inherits a lineage, a set of instructions encoded in...

God As Cathode (and Anode)

Anode and Cathode The illustration above shows a battery with the anode and cathode connected to “plates” immersed in a medium (salt water for example). The medium provides some (even if very little) resistance to the electrical flow. The tendency will be...