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Hijacking emergency granulopoiesis: Neutrophil ontogeny and reprogramming in cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Neutrophils are highly plastic innate immune cells; their functions in cancer extend beyond the tumour microenvironment. This Review summarises current understanding of neutrophil maturation and heterogeneity and highlights tumour‐induced granulopoiesis as a systemic programme that expands immature, immunosuppressive neutrophils via tumour‐derived ...
Gabriela Marinescu, Yi Feng
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Competition amongst contests [PDF]
This article analyses the allocation of prizes in contests. While existing models consider a single contest with an exogenously given set of players, in our model several contests compete for participants.
Ghazala Azmat, Marc Möller
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Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco +2 more
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Contesting Resources - Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse [PDF]
A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that capture the most salient features of contests for resource rents, and show how ...
Bulte, Erwin, Wick, Katharina
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing and phenotypic exploration in nontuberculous mycobacteria. In this Research Protocol, we describe approaches to control, monitor, and quantitatively assess CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing in M. smegmatis and M. abscessus model organisms.
Vanessa Point +7 more
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Are daily fantasy sports gambling?
Journal of Sports Analytics, 2019 Millions of people play daily fantasy sports in the hopes of winning money. The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel ® and DraftKings ® process billions of dollars in entry fees every year.
Todd Easton, Sarah Newell
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Self assessment in insects: honeybee queens know their own strength.
PLoS ONE, 2008 Contests mediate access to reproductive opportunities in almost all species of animals. An important aspect of the evolution of contests is the reduction of the costs incurred during intra-specific encounters to a minimum.
Vincent Dietemann +8 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.ZFAS1 is a lncRNA promoting cell proliferation and migration, exhibiting high expression in various cancers. It is conserved, widely expressed, and produces multiple splice variants with unclear roles. We identified several splice variants in hepatocyte models, and found that inhibiting or suppressing regulators of the unfolded protein response (PERK ...
Sébastien Soubeyrand +2 more
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Truth Contests and Talking Corpses [PDF]
, 1999 In diverse fictions from the second century Roman Empire, two parties with competing claims to truth hold a formal contest in a public place where, after a series of abrupt reversals, the issue is finally decided by the evidence of a dead, mutilated, or
Gleason, Maud
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Lobbying contests with endogenous policy proposals [PDF]
, 2005 Lobbyists choose what to lobby for. If they can precommit to certain policy proposals, their choice will have an influence on the behavior of opposing lobbyists.
Münster, Johannes
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