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During mitosis, transcription is stopped and many chromatin characteristics are lost, which poses a challenge to the continuity of cell identity, especially in fast-circulating stem cells, which require a constant balance between self-renewal and differentiation. If a cell doesn’t remember...
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In 1924, the German physiologist Otto Warburg found that the growth of cancer cells was heavily dependent on glycolysis compared to normal cells, and this process produced a large amount of “metabolized waste” lactic acid, which is known as the...
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The addition of adjuvants to vaccine formulations to enhance the immune response to vaccine antigens by enhancing antigen processing and presentation by antigen presenting cells (APCs) is a common practice for current vaccine formulations. However, since many adjuvants are composed...
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What Is the “Oxygen Pathway”? The oxygen-sensing pathway actually refers to every cell in the human body, and it can sense how much oxygen is in the environment in which it lives. Oxygen is vital to animal life: mitochondria in...
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What Is Virus-Like Particles? Virus-like particles (VLPs) consist of all or part of a protein that forms a viral capsid but lacks a genomic material, similar to the structure of a virus, but cannot replicate in cells, precluding any possibility...
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What Is a Foodborne Illness? Foodborne illness is a disease that causes infection or poisoning in humans due to the ingestion of foods containing toxic and hazardous substances into the human body. Foodborne illness usually causes gastrointestinal discomfort, nausea and...
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Lack of sleep has become a common phenomenon in modern life. The study found that people with chronic sleep deprivation may suffer from various diseases caused by lack of sleep, such as decreased thinking ability, impaired alertness and judgment, immune...
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Obesity is a state in which excess body fat accumulates to the extent that it may have a negative impact on health. When people’s body mass index (BMI) (measured by dividing a person’s weight by the square of a person’s height)...
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Metformin is the first line of treatment for type 2 diabetes. Low prices and few adverse reactions make it a large number of users worldwide. Due to the emergence of insulin, the biguanide has disappeared from people’s attention for decades....
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What creatures still live in our bodies? This problem seems simple, but our understanding is not clear for a long time in history. In recent years, researchers have successively isolated human symbiotic microbes, which actually constitute most of the cells...
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