Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever

Nothing goes on forever Chagas disease.

One hundred years have passed since the achievement of Dr Carlos Chagas (April 14, 1909), who, under inhospitable conditions, had the intelligence and ability to humbly detect an unknown illness that we now know originates from pre-Columbian America1 (Figure 1A). We must attribute particular merit to the discovery of the parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi in honour of Oswaldo Cruz) and subsequently th...

Who wants to live forever?

For millennia, human civilization has been fascinated with overcoming death. Immortality, eternal youth or at least the prospect of reaching biblical age have had a strong lure for religion, art and popular beliefs. Life after death, which is, in essence, eternal life, is the one central element of nearly all religions since Ancient Egypt. If we believe the Old Testament, some of the patriarchs...

The forever war.

Pyomyositis Authors : Doctor Fanny Lanternier , Doctor

Cryptography goes to the Cloud

In this paper we identify some areas where cryptography can help a rapid adoption of cloud computing. Although secure storage has already captured the attention of many cloud providers, offering a higher level of protection for their customer’s data, we think that more advanced techniques such as searchable encryption and secure outsourced computation will become popular in the near future, ope...