Implantable medical devices have paved the way for realizing intra-body networks (IBNs) that are capable of communicating information from within the body. Traditional forms of RF-based based communication face drawbacks in terms of high absorption within tissues and can potentially result in security and privacy issues, owing to the omnidirectional radiation. Instead, we propose the use of wea...

Candida albicans is a fungus that often colonizes the human body as commensal without causing any symptoms. Several C. virulence factors have been described in literature, of which best known are adhesion to host mucosa cells and secretion hydrolytic enzymes. The transition from colonization infection depends not only on fungus, but also response invasion. This literature review focuses differe...

The conditions under which we identify entities as animate agents and the neural mechanisms supporting this ability are central questions in social neuroscience. Prior studies have focused upon 2 perceptual cues for signaling animacy: 1) surface features representing body forms such as faces, torsos, and limbs and 2) motion cues associated with biological forms. Here, we consider a third cue--t...

Morphometry is introduced as quantitative approach to seek information concerning variations and changes in the forms of organisms that described the relationship between the human body and disease. Scientists of all civilization, who existed until today, examined the human body using anthropometric methods. For these reasons, anthropometric data are used in many contexts to screen for or monit...

Chlamydia trachomatis is among the most clinically significant human pathogens, yet their obligate intracellular nature places severe restrictions upon research. Chlamydiae undergo a biphasic developmental cycle characterized by an infectious cell type known as an elementary body (EB) and an intracellular replicative form called a reticulate body (RB). EBs have historically been described as me...