Fiber man meets microbial man

When Food Meets Man: the Contribution of Epigenetics to Health

Post-translational modifications of chromatin contribute to the epigenetic control of gene transcription. The response to food intake and individual nutrients also includes epigenetic events. Bile acids are necessary for lipid digestion and absorption, and more recently have emerged as signaling molecules. Their synthesis is transcriptionally regulated also in relation to the fasted-to-fed cycl...

Archaic man meets a marvellous automaton: posthumanism, social robots, archetypes.

Posthumanism is associated with critical explorations of how new technologies are rewriting our understanding of what it means to be human and how they might alter human existence itself. Intersections with analytical psychology vary depending on which technologies are held in focus. Social robotics promises to populate everyday settings with entities that have populated the imagination for mil...

Cystic Lung Disease in a Young man

A 32-year-old man was admitted in the Emergency Department with acute dyspnea secondary to spontaneous pneumothorax. He had history of spontaneous pneumothorax 2 years ago.He was active cigarette smoker (10 pack/year). The family history was unremarkable for lung diseases. Additionally, he had no systemic complaints.The lung HRCT revealed multiple bizarre-shaped cysts distributed in both lungs ...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Tree-Net, A Multi-Level Fiber Optics MAN

High bandwidth requirements make the use of fiber optics very attractive for Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) implementations. Several fiber optics MAN architectures have been proposed. A common drawback of such architectures is the presence of active processing components (e.g. ring interfaces, switches, gateways) at intermediate points along the path. Such elements tend to reduce reliability a...