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At the beginning of time it was called “Alchemy”, and then in modern times alchemy evolved towards being called “Alkimia” (an Arabic word), which ultimately led to the present “Chemistry”. After hundreds of years, and plenty of brilliant discoveries and developments, the science of chemistry is nowadays, unfortunately, negatively connected with pollution problems, environmental disasters, drug abuse, low-quality food, deadly use of fertilizers and additives, and so on. The media, through sensationalism and misinformation has been, and still is, responsible for inducing the wrong public opinion that “chemistry is bad thing”, when the reality is that chemistry is the mother of all other sciences. As chemists, we know the truth, and we must stimulate our students, researchers, politicians, and the public into the original idea of chemistry as the mother of all sciences, or the socalled “central science”. We know now that the science of chemistry is everywhere; all around us, it is in our blood, in our bodies, in our medicines, in our homes, in our clothes, in the new materials that surround us daily, and it is related to health and medical issues. In other words, without chemistry, the world, as it is known, would never exist. A good definition of chemistry is the one that considers it as the subject that studies the structure, composition, properties, and modifications of matter in any physical state: liquid, solid, or gas. Traditionally, the complexity of chemistry has been divided into small pieces called “Analytical Chemistry”, “Inorganic Chemistry”, “Organic Chemistry”, “Chemical Engineering”, and “Physical Chemistry”. However, nowadays, this division is almost nonsensical, because the current research world is based on connections, interdisciplinary research, multifunctional applications, and collaborations. In two words: translational science. In connection with this idea of multifunctional applied research, the European Society of Translational Medicine recently coined the term “Translational Research”, which is mainly focused on medicine and healthcare fields, but includes biochemistry, biomedical, and biological sciences. The principal aim is to combine the knowledge of different disciplines, trans-