Last week we eavesdropped on a meeting March 1960 in Sydney Brenner's apartment, in which Francois Jacob recounted recent results from Institut Pasteur. It was called Part I (Crick's Story), because I envisioned three parts: Part I. The world as seen through the eyes of Francis Crick, focusing on his view of an article by Belozersky and Spirin Part II. The world as seen through the eyes of Fran...

William Blake’s iconic painting Jacob’s Ladder was inspired by the Old Testament story in the book of Exodus (28:10-19). Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, was fleeing from his twin brother Esau who had vowed to kill him. On his way to a relative’s house, Jacob lay down for the night. As he was dreaming, he had a vision of a ladder between heaven and earth. God’s angels were on it...

Evaluation of biomarkers of arterial hypertension (AH) could be considered to be useful as early, more reliable and accurate diagnostic indicators for AH than simply measuring of blood pressure (BP) in routine clinical practice, especially at early stages of hypertension. For instance, an increased level of a soluble protein junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) was previously found to be asso...

SPLICE/AS is an authentication system for large-scale distributed systems. Two distinct aws have been discovered in SPLICE/AS|the most recent by Clark and Jacob. In addition to pointing out the aw, Clark and Jacob propose a modiication. We show the Clark-Jacob version is still awed by describing an attack that can be carried out under certain assumptions. We argue that the underlying reason for...

Obeid, S., Wankell, M., Charrez, B., Sternberg, J., Kreuter, R., Esmaili, S., Ramezani-Moghadam, M., Devine, C., Read, S., Bhathal, P., Ahlenstiel, G., Qiao, L., George, J., Hebbard, L., et al (2017). Adiponectin confers protection from acute colitis and restricts a B cell immune response. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(16), 6569-6582. [...

The Jacob Project involves the construction of a virtual environment where an animated human-like agent called Jacob gives instruction to the user. The project focuses on three issues: the software engineering aspects of building a virtual reality system, the integration of natural language interaction and other interaction modalities, and the use of agent technology. Jacob has been given a tas...

On May 8 2001, Jaap Seidel passed away. This volume of the European Journal of Combinatorics is dedicated to his memory. Jaap Seidel loved Mathematics. He wanted to learn it, to understand it, and most of all to teach it. In his courses and personal contacts he was very inspiring. Many mathematicians, especially young ones, were influenced by Jaap. Besides being a teacher, he was also very inte...

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...