These difficult questions, now much diseussed, are in fact very old, indeed as old as the beginnings of Western medieine. According to an ancient Greek myth, the goddess Athena procured two powerful drugs in the form of blood taken from the Gorgon Medusa, the blood drawn from her left side providing protection against death, that from her right side a deadly poison. According to one version of ...

The klotho gene was originally identified as a putative age-suppressing gene in mice that extends life span when overexpressed. It induces complex phenotypes resembling human premature aging syndromes when disrupted. The gene was named after a Greek goddess Klotho who spun the thread of life. Since then, various functional aspects of the klotho gene have been investigated, leading to the identi...

motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. one of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of conv...

The notion of the one is a central element in the thought of Parmenides and Plato. At issue are two relationships: that between one and many, and that being and becoming, and the possibility of acquiring knowledge about these relationships. Parmenides is traditionally understood as unequivocally equating being, one and thought with one another; hence denying multiplicity and becoming while proc...

Grafting is effectively used worldwide to overcome abiotic and biotic factors impacting yield, including soil temperature. Field studies were conducted in 2020 2021 a cool Mediterranean climate (average daily air temperature range of 12.8–17.1 °C) identify suitable rootstock combinations for grafted cantaloupe (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus) evaluate fruit yield quality. Cantaloupe cultivars Su...

This manuscript pairs Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘Marsh Languages’ with Luce Irigaray’s recent philosophical text In the Beginning She Was. By doing so, an important conceptual resonance emerges between two texts on status of loss a maternal language and more broadly founding Mother at origins Western thought. Advancing feminist poetics ethics maternal, its roots in nature, Atwood works are odds en...