The Holy Bible: insights into perinatal practice in ancient times.

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran

Concepts of biological rhythmicity and chronobiology in the Holy Bible.

The way in which religious texts and sources depict the processes involved in the regulation of life is an interesting and rich topic. For example, the Holy Bible, the religious basis of Western civilization, is a document that includes references to medical, as well as historic cultural practices. Sun has already demonstrated that the Bible contains rich medical materials on different subjects...

Typesetting the Holy Bible in Hebrew, with TEX

This paper presents Tiqwah, a typesetting system for Biblical Hebrew, that uses the combined e orts of TEX, METAFONT and gnu Flex. The author describes its use and its features, discusses issues relevant to the design of fonts and placement of oating diacritics, and gives a list of rare cases and typographical curiosa which can be found in the Bible. The paper concludes with an example of Hebre...

New Insights into Ancient Seasonal Life Timers

Organisms must adapt to seasonal changes in the environment and time their physiology accordingly. In vertebrates, the annual change in photoperiod is often critical for entraining the neuroendocrine pathways, which drive seasonal metabolic and reproductive cycles. These cycles depend on thyroid hormone (TH), reflecting its ancestral role in metabolic control. Recent studies reveal that--in mam...

Babesiosis: recent insights into an ancient disease.

Ever since the discovery of parasitic inclusions in erythrocytes of cattle in Romania by Victor Babes at the end of the 19th century, newly recognised babesial pathogens continue to emerge around the world and the substantial public health impact of babesiosis on livestock and man is ongoing. Babesia are transmitted by ixodid ticks and infection of the host causes a host-mediated pathology and ...