Membranes

Every cell in every living organism is enclosed in a membrane. Membranes define what is inside and what is outside. Without membranes, and more specifically, phospholipid membranes, there would be no life on Earth.

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Celebrating Lynn Margulis

I just returned from a wonderful three-day symposium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst entitled "Celebrating a Life in Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis." Dr. Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at UMA and one of the greatest scientists of our era.

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Mother of Molecules

A young botanist, in response to this painting, wrote: "Something that often strikes me at moments of tragedy in my own life, or the lives of friends is how at every moment, everything is happening across the spectrum of existence.”

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