Mitochondria - The Chemists' Organelle
I am writing a book on mitochondria and after a few months of research you begin to see a common thread - serendipity. Sometimes big things happen because of what seems to be luck, a group of people all happen to be in one place at one time, they are all spurred on by each other and dramatic things occur. In the 17th century we had the Geniuses of Britain, with Newton, Halley, Hooke, Boyle and Wren, and a century later we had the Founding Fathers in America, and recently on a smaller scale, in the 1960s, we had The Beatles and The Beach Boys, where Brian Wilson essentially lost his mind trying to outdo Paul McCartney, but in a two-year period of time we had some of the best pop music ever, with the confluence of Bob Dylan and others. read more