The past two decades have brought many important advances in our understanding of the
hereditary susceptibility to cancer. Approximately 5–10% of all cancers are inherited, the …

Vacuoles in vegetative tissues allow the plant surface to expand by accumulating energetically
cheap inorganic osmolytes, and thereby optimize the plant for absorption of sunlight and …

Fire-prone invasive grasses create novel ecosystem threats by increasing fine-fuel loads and
continuity, which can alter fire regimes. While the existence of an invasive grass-fire cycle …

Several newly generated mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell lines were tested for their ability
to produce completely ES cell-derived mice at early passage numbers by ES cell <==> …

Apart from alterations in the RET/PTC-RAS-BRAF pathway, comparatively little is known
about the genetics of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). We show that numerous microRNAs (…

The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially
in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in …

BACKGROUND The literature on utility theory does not typically address individual investor
decision processes. Rather, it focuses on the development and refinement of" macro" …

This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is
channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom …

In order to search for sequence variants conferring risk of thyroid cancer we conducted a
genome-wide association study in 192 and 37,196 Icelandic cases and controls, respectively, …

Background Addition of trastuzumab to first-line chemotherapy improves overall survival in
patients with HER2-positive metastatic gastric cancer. We assessed the safety and activity of …