Organism Cleansing and Human Life Prolongation

The Prolongation of Life

On Longevity and Means for the Prolongation of Life

Copper in the Human Organism

Copper is an essential micronutrient for human bodies, whose distribution in different organs and tissues, metabolism and physiological impact is not thoroughly explained yet. Further issues which need clarification are the exact composition and constitution of its combinations with other elements, the physiological impact of copper and copper-enzymes in sickness and health. Biomarkers for iden...

A-life, Organism and Body: the semiotics of emergent levels

This paper comments upon some of the open problems in artificial life (cf. Bedeau et al 2000) from the perspective of a philosophy of biology tradition called qualitative organicism, and more specifically the emerging field of biosemiotics, the study of life processes as sign processes. Semiotics, in the sense of the pragmaticist philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce, is the general study...

Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: the Rohingya crisis and human rights.

A humanitarian crisis of enormous scale and scope is unfolding in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State and its border zone with Bangladesh. More than 420 000 Rohingya women, children, and men have fled widespread violence in Rakhine State in the past 3 weeks. Some 240 000 of them are children, according to UNICEF. The Bangladesh–Myanmar border already shelters about 400 000 Rohingya refugees from My...