Cancer cells are characterized by self-sufficiency in the absence of growth signals, their
ability to evade apoptosis, resistance to anti-growth signals, sustained angiogenesis …

Horseshoe crabs have persisted for more than 200 million years, and fossil forms date to
450 million years ago. The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), one of four …

The increasing number of publications on the subject shows that nanomedicine is an
attractive field for investigations aiming to considerably improve anticancer chemotherapy …

Movement is fundamental to human and animal life, emerging through interaction of
complex neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. Study of movement draws from and …

Background Genotyping by sequencing, a new low-cost, high-throughput sequencing
technology was used to genotype 2,815 maize inbred accessions, preserved mostly at the …

It is not known if a surgical lung biopsy is necessary in all patients for the diagnosis of
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We conducted a blinded, prospective study at eight …

Telomerase activation is a common feature of advanced human cancers 1 and facilitates the
malignant transformation of cultured human cells 2 and in mice 3, 4. These experimental …

Muscle-driven simulations of human and animal motion are widely used to complement
physical experiments for studying movement dynamics. Musculotendon models are an …

Height is one of the most heritable and easily measured traits in maize (Zea mays L.). Given
a pedigree or estimates of the genomic identity-by-state among related plants, height is also …

Accelerated telomere loss has been proposed to be a factor leading to end-stage organ
failure in chronic diseases of high cellular turnover such as liver cirrhosis. To test this …