Pompe disease is a rare and potentially fatal metabolic myopathy (prevalence 1 in 20,000). In Pompe disease, the deficiency of lysosomal acid α-glucosidase (GAA) leads…
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Not only does the level of blood pressure reveal something about one’s own health risk, but so do its fluctuations. It has to do with…
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Telomeres consist of tandem repeats of TTAGGG and DNA binding proteins that form a cap to protect chromosomal termini from the loss of genetic material….
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Soil sustains life by the virtue of the nutrients and moisture it holds. Predicting the dynamics of soil moisture is of great importance for agricultural…
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Immunotherapy with checkpoint blockade has revolutionized cancer treatment in the last decade. With the initial FDA approval of CTLA-4 blockade with ipilimumab in 2011 followed…
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Nuclear energy has immense potential because uranium and other actinides are the most energy-dense resources available. For instance, only a few grams of uranium dioxide…
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The impairment of basic cognition and social cognition is a well-established feature of schizophrenia. Basic cognition includes cognitive domains such as attention, information processing speed,…
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Colombia is one of the main emerging economies of the South American continent and that means an ever-growing energy demand. In particular, electricity consumption is…
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The Anthropocene represents an entirely new epoch in the history of the Earth System. Evidence shows that the evolution of Earth is now determined mostly…
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Minnesota. Arizona. Wyoming. These are but a few states where public lands exchanges have been carried out recently by hard rock mining developers to acquire…
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Basement membranes likely modulate fibrosis triggered by diverse injuries in many tissues such as lung, skin, and kidney by modulating the availability and function of…
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