Fig. (4).

A fruitful communication between materials scientists and life scientists is often hindered because of the different terminology, experimental methods and approaches to research used. Some scientific topics, such as biomineralization studies, need to adopt the language of both in order to be successful. Typically, such fields can be in addition seen as lying at the intersection of various other, narrow or broad scientific areas (left). Openness towards correlating individual scientific areas and topics with distant and seemingly not linkable fields and perspectives presents a step in the direction of realizing an enormous importance of the tiniest scientific endeavors. For example, teeth, one of the prototypes of an intricate organization of multiple mineral tissues, could be through an inexhaustible complexity of their structural organization and biosynthetic pathways seen as a window to the wonders of science and Nature.