Eve-Riina Hyrkäs

The mouth is Heaven’s gate? A biochemist-turned-Adventist on food for life

Jacques Monod’s philosophical essay Chance and Necessity (1970) briefly credits a little-known Finnish scientist for contributions to the study of enzyme synthesis, noting with regret that the author, ‘Karstrom’, had left biochemical research ‘to become a monk’. This article uses the biochemist-turned-Adventist H...