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Animal fans: Toward a multispecies fan studies

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2019
In an exploration of the potential for (and implications of) animal fans—not human fans of animals but nonhuman animals as fans—situated in ongoing debates about the personhood of nonhuman species, I suggest ways that the animal turn taking place in the humanities and social sciences might affect fan studies.
openaire   +2 more sources

Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext: the example of Pamela Aidan's Fitzwilliam darcy, gentleman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Building on recent findings in the field of fan fiction studies, I claim that Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman is indirectly influenced by three cultural phenomena which centre around Jane Austen and her work.
Van Steenhuyse, Veerle
core  

In vitro models of cancer‐associated fibroblast heterogeneity uncover subtype‐specific effects of CRISPR perturbations

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Development of therapies targeting cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) necessitates preclinical model systems that faithfully represent CAF–tumor biology. We established an in vitro coculture system of patient‐derived pancreatic CAFs and tumor cell lines and demonstrated its recapitulation of primary CAF–tumor biology with single‐cell transcriptomics ...
Elysia Saputra   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to do things with fan subs: Media engagement as subcultural capital in anime fan subbing

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2014
Anime fandom has been a fairly constant subject in fan scholarship, although only recently have conversations about fan subbing begun to circulate. As useful as those conversations are, none have directly dealt either with the mechanisms of fan subbing ...
Douglas Schules
doaj   +1 more source

"Fandom as classroom practice: A teaching guide," edited by Katherine Anderson Howell

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2019
Review of Katherine Anderson Howell, editor. Fandom as classroom practice: A teaching guide. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018, paperback, $70 (168p), ISBN 9781609385675.
Adam Golub
doaj   +1 more source

Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2022
This article explores how music fans used social media to increase a social movement’s public support. Although initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the movement eventually gained widespread support and is motivating communities to engage in ...
Sarah Riddick
doaj   +1 more source

Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged.
Łuksza, Agata
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Perspectives in educating molecular pathologists on liquid biopsy: Toward integrative, equitable, and decentralized precision oncology

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Liquid biopsy enables minimally invasive, real‐time molecular profiling through analysis of circulating biomarkers in biological fluids. This Perspective highlights the importance of training pathologists through integrative educational programs, such as the European Masters in Molecular Pathology, to ensure effective and equitable implementation of ...
Marius Ilié   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying a queer aesthetic in amateur video manipulations of Disney content as part of a utopian visualisation of lesbian desires

open access: yesWhatever, 2021
In traditional applications of queer theory onto the cinematic medium, reading the subtext as a spectator becomes the main way in which queerness can be uncovered within past texts that might at first glance be considered part of the heteronormative ...
Isabella Macleod
doaj   +1 more source

Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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