When I began my medical student clinical rotations, I quickly became overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy. While the doctors around me conjured appropriate diagnoses and treatment approaches, I fumbled with the only tools I possessed: my time and a smile. It was only when I met the patient Ms Jones that I came to understand the potential impact of these simple tools. My encouragement became pa...

Exemplified especially by Heidegger and Levinas, the phenomenology of death expresses first, impossibility experience, second, authenticity Dasein starting from horizon opened possibility death, third, relevance other to discovery one’s own death. This article tries take a step further, showing link between desire for immortality manifested in this authenticity. By overturning Heidegger’s these...

Melih Cevdet Anday's poetry book Gilgamesh Behind Immortality consists of three parts: "End Summer Poems", "Night on the Farm While Waking Up from Noon Sleep" and "Gilgames Immortality". There are four poems in this final chapter, which has same title as book: "Burst to Sun", "Civilized Wild", "Forest Order", "Death These poems; The hero's endless journey been examined context his departure, in...

Cellular immortality happens upon impairment of cell-cycle checkpoint pathways (p53/p16/pRb), reactivation or up-regulation of telomerase enzyme, or upregulation of some oncogenes or oncoproteins leading to a higher rate of cell division.There are also some other factors and mechanisms involved in immortalisation, which need to be discovered. Immortalisation of cells derived from different sour...

Germline immortality is a topic that has intrigued theoretical biologists interested in aging for over a century. The germ cell lineage can be passed from one generation to the next, indefinitely. In contrast, somatic cells are typically only needed for a single generation and are then discarded. Germ cells may, therefore, harbor rejuvenation mechanisms that enable them to proliferate for eons....