There has been great interest in finding structural targets in cancer for the widely prescribed type 2 diabetes drug metformin. Metformin is a synthetic product…
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When you take a bite of food, your teeth break-up the food into little pieces that are easier to digest, saliva is secreted that contain…
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Last summer, an enormous rock avalanche destroyed an entire village in a remote mountainous area in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (Sichuan, China),…
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Geology tries to understand the past by looking at the contemporary world. There is the famous phrase of uniformitarianism “Present is the key to the…
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The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and Barry Barish, “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and…
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Modern society is largely a plastic-based culture in which organic (carbon-based) plastics have become more ubiquitous than other common materials such as metals, glass, or…
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As the dominant staple crop in temperate regions of the world, wheat provides between 20% to 50% of the total intake of calories in our…
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In most East and Southeast Asia countries, mosaic crop production systems usually consist of relatively small land holdings ( < 2 ha), which are managed…
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The human race relies heavily on what the earth has to offer: minerals from underground, food from land and sea. We know how important these…
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Mountains are exposed to mass movements such as landslides, debris flows, and snow avalanches. These hazards affect valley slopes and endanger human settlements. They may…
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Interleukin-2 a cytokine secreted by T cells has stimulating effects on T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Systemic IL2 administration could, therefore, enhance NK-mediated…
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