The Powers of Death: Recognition, Resistance, Resurrection

Radiation Resistance: Resurrection by Recombination

Adaptation to extreme desiccation has conferred extraordinary radiation resistance on the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. How this organism is able to reconstruct a genome shattered by gamma rays has now been revealed.

The Death and Life of the Resurrection Drug

In his own words, it was the most dramatic moment of his scientific career. At the back of an auditorium in Nairobi, Kenya, Cyrus Bacchi met Simon Van Nieuwenhove. Bacchi, at the time, was essentially a biochemist whose interest was the African trypanosome. Van Nieuwenhove was a clinician who had worked for many years in the field in Africa. The topic of their conversation was eflornithine—a sm...

Death and Resurrection of the Human IRGM Gene

Immunity-related GTPases (IRG) play an important role in defense against intracellular pathogens. One member of this gene family in humans, IRGM, has been recently implicated as a risk factor for Crohn's disease. We analyzed the detailed structure of this gene family among primates and showed that most of the IRG gene cluster was deleted early in primate evolution, after the divergence of the a...

The correlation between believing in resurrection and attitudes toward death among elderly people

Background & Objectives: Since believing in resurrection and life after death exists in all religions, streng thening this belief leads to positive emotional states, increases adaptation to adverse life events, reduces the fear of death and gives a meaning to life. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the correlation between belief in the hereafter and the attitude of death in the...

Resurrection of the Rentier