: African Odyssey: An Anthropological Adventure . Mariam K. Slater.

Mariam Williams

2005: an EPA odyssey.

MobilomeFINDER (http://mml.sjtu.edu.cn/Mobilome FINDER) is an interactive online tool that facilitates bacterial genomic island or ‘mobile genome’ (mobilome) discovery; it integrates the ArrayOme and tRNAcc software packages. ArrayOme utilizes a microarray-derived comparative genomic hybridization input data set to generate ‘inferred contigs’ produced by merging adjacent genes classified as ‘pr...

Space, Together: An Odyssey

Outer space has been a favourite theme of science fiction literature for a long time, with Stanley Kubrick's movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) being a climax in this regard. People are also interested by inner space. In Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer, 1966), miniature submarines allow a medical team to adventure into the familiar and mysterious universe of the human body. In a certain wa...

Christmas: An anthropological lens

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

Tuberculosis: an Anthropological Perspective

Tuberculosis is a contagious and destructive disease that has plagued humans and their domesticated animals for at least 6000 years (Morse, Brothwell, and Ucko 1964), and continues to be a serious disease worldwide. Like most infectious diseases, the virulence of tuberculosis constantly fluctuates as changes occur in the host, the pathogen, and the environment. For example, in the United States...