About one quarter of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) may be treated and derive a benefit with the current standard chemotherapy. To better understand why some tumors resist ...

Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have identified an iron-storing protein called ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) as a driver of age-related cognitive decline in mice, and they ...

It has long been appreciated that dynamic non-genetic factors, including external factors such as diet, lifestyle, environment, and toxicants, as well as internal factors including organ physiology, ...

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