Elias Metchnikoff

eCAM: Darwin and Metchnikoff

Darwin and Metchnikoff exerted prescient influences on biology and medicine. Is this seemingly an unlikely pair to be juxtaposed and mentioned in a journal devoted to evidence-based complementary medicine? I think not. I will try and persuade you from a few viewpoints why I accord them this place. First, it seems essential that all biologists, biomedical specialists and everyone, with a general...

Phagocytosis: The Legacy of Metchnikoff

This year is the centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff, the father of innate immunity. His work on phagocytosis has continued to flourish, particularly over the past half century.

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916): discoverer of phagocytosis.

Elias George Hall

3 Elias-bassalygo Theorem

Problem Set 1 is due next Wednesday. 2 Overview Today we will do the following. • Prove the Elias-Bassalygo-Johnson Bound introduced in the previous lecture. Recall that the proof consists of the two lemmas described roughly below – List decodable codes have poor rate. – Good error correcting codes are nicely decodable. • Introduce some algebraic codes along with some helpful idea from algebra....