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The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth

Biology Direct, 2011
It is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile the observed extent of horizontal gene transfers with the central metaphor of a great tree uniting all evolving entities on the planet. In this manuscript we describe the Public Goods Hypothesis and show
Bapteste Eric, Pisani Davide, McInerney James O, O'Connell Mary J   +3 more
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KLK7 overexpression promotes an aggressive phenotype and facilitates peritoneal dissemination in colorectal cancer cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
KLK7, a tissue kallikrein‐related peptidase, is elevated in advanced colorectal cancer and associated with shorter survival. High KLK7 levels in ascites correlate with peritoneal metastasis. In mice, KLK7 overexpression increases metastasis. In vitro, KLK7 enhances cancer cell proliferation, migration, adhesion, and spheroid formation, driving ...
Yosr Z. Haffani, Tobias Dreyer, Meriem Naim, Rea Lo Dico, Natalia A. Ignatenko, Viktor Magdolen, Dalila Darmoul   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalization and Biodiversity Conservation Problems: Polycentric REDD+ Solutions

Land, 2019
Protected areas are considered the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, but face multiple problems in delivering this core objective. The growing trend of framing biodiversity and protected area values in terms of ecosystem services and human well ...
Mwangi Githiru, Josephine W. Njambuya
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Financing the Provision of Global Public Goods [PDF]

global public goods, international organizations, aid, externality, Global Environment ...
Anand, P.B.
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Mycobacterial cell division arrest and smooth‐to‐rough envelope transition using CRISPRi‐mediated genetic repression systems

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, Wafaa Achache, Janïs Laudouze, Eliana Sepulveda Ramos, Mickaël Maziero, Céline Crauste, Stéphane Canaan, Pierre Santucci   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patenting the Sun? Possible Exclusion of SRM Technologies from Patenting and Risk Regulation

European Journal of Risk Regulation
In an interview with Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first polio vaccine, when asked whether he owned the patents for the vaccine, Salk replied with a rhetorical question: “Could you patent the sun?” Decades later, patents about the Sun indeed emerged as
Wenting Cheng
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Impact of Risk and Uncertainty in the Provision of Local and Global Environmental Goods : An Experimental Analysis [PDF]

Uncertainties and risks in the decision making process are abundant in the area of environmental economics, irrespective of whether the problems being discussed are local or global.
Lata Gangadharan, Veronika Nemes
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Marketing in the Public Sector [PDF]

, 2010
{Excerpt} The public sector is the part of economic life, not in private ownership, that deals with the production, delivery, and allocation of basic public goods and services at global, regional, national, or local levels.
Serrat, Olivier
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Tumor‐stromal crosstalk and macrophage enrichment are associated with chemotherapy response in bladder cancer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemoresistance in bladder cancer: Macrophage recruitment associated with CXCL1, CXCL5 and CXCL8 expression is characteristic of Gemcitabine/Cisplatin (Gem/Cis) Non‐Responder tumors (right side) while Responder tumors did not show substantial tumor‐stromal crosstalk (left side). All biological icons are attributed to Bioicons: carcinoma, cancerous‐cell‐
Sophie Leypold, Janik Riese, Lancelot Seillier, Mark Kühnel, Julia Pannhausen, Charlotte O. J. Fröhlich, Christian Martin, Peter Boor, Matthias Saar, Danny D. Jonigk, Nadine T. Gaisa, Michael Rose   +11 more
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Life After Kyoto: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming [PDF]

This study reviews different approaches to the political and economic control of global public goods like global warming. It compares quantity-oriented control mechanisms like the Kyoto Protocol with price-type control mechanisms such as internationally ...
William Nordhaus
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