Category: Periodicity

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Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580-1644), Ortus Medicinae (“Origins of Medicine”) 1648. “METABOLISM”.

INTRODUCTION. Jan Baptist van Helmont was the founder of the science of biochemistry’. Antoine Lavoisier was the founder of the science of chemistry. Equal to the Lavoisier first periodic listing of chemical elements’ is”enzyme classes”. Seven (7) classes of enzymes constitute periodicity. Organic chemistry’ concerns micromolecules that contain the element (C) carbon. The seven (7) classes … Continue reading Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580-1644), Ortus Medicinae (“Origins of Medicine”) 1648. “METABOLISM”.

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“Human Body Weight: Prigogine Volumes (70 liters)”.

PRELUDE. Ilya Prigogine, “Time, Structure and Fluctuations“, Nobel Prize Lecture, 8 December, 1977 will be used in this blog post as reference. The views given in the lecture contain essential “physical intuition“. The hyperlink is to the Otto Warburg 1931 lecture blog post. 70 liters adult human volume BELOW is discussed in Ilya Prigogine terms.   … Continue reading “Human Body Weight: Prigogine Volumes (70 liters)”.

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Biochemistry Through the Language Barrier. PART FOUR (IV).

Here I present: Biochemistry’ Through the Language Barrier. PART FOUR (IV). INTRODUCTION. Essential Vocabulary is the names of acupoints of human body for Biochemistry’ students and researchers. Acupuncture’ is nothing but 0-360 acupoints on the integument (skin). ABOVE is the presentation of the geometry of coordinates needed to specify any given acupoint listed BELOW. However, … Continue reading Biochemistry Through the Language Barrier. PART FOUR (IV).

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“Biochemistry Through the Language Barrier”. PART TWO (II).

­  Biochemistry’ Through the Language Barrier was the topic of an earlier blog post. There I listed the English equivalent for each item in the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) with symbol. “Biochemistry’ Through the Language Barrier“, PART TWO (II): The 2­0 Human Cell Atlas’ (HCA) Categories Explained. The human body contains trillions of cells, all performing … Continue reading “Biochemistry Through the Language Barrier”. PART TWO (II).

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Chemistry Through the Language Barrier.

This image is a list of chemical elements’ presented in alphabetical order, rather than the standard periodic table’ layout organized by atomic number and group. The elements’ are also color-coded, but not to indicate their classification as metals, non-metals, metalloids, etcetera, as is common with periodic table’ charts.  1. Organization and Content. The elements’ are listed … Continue reading Chemistry Through the Language Barrier.