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Redox Implications of Extreme Task Performance: The Case in Driver Athletes
Cells, 2022 Redox homeostasis and redox-mediated signaling mechanisms are fundamental elements of human biology. Physiological levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) modulate a range of functional processes at the cellular ...
Michael B. Reid
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundThe survival rates from breast cancer in Africa are poor and yet the incidence rates are on the rise. In this study, we hypothesized that, in Africa, a continent with great disparities in socio-economic status, race, tumor biology, and cultural
Paddy Ssentongo +11 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2016 The biological status and biomedical significance of the concept of race as applied to humans continue to be contentious issues despite the use of advanced statistical and clustering methods to determine continental ancestry.
Koffi N. Maglo +2 more
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Health Equity Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial
Health Equity, 2023 The practices of contemporary clinical decision-making and care rely heavily on racial biological essentialism, which is a set of ideas originating in modern science that describes populations as comprising distinct subpopulations with unique sets of ...
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Changing Natures: On Theory and Practice of Breeding in the European Middle Ages
Histories, 2023 While throughout modern history it has been shown how thoroughly biological discourses were shaped by conceptions originating in the theory and praxis of breeding, for the medieval period similar studies are mostly absent. This paper offers a symmetrical
Camille Schneiter
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Race and gender differences in how sense of belonging influences decisions to major in STEM
International Journal of STEM Education, 2018 Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors, primarily women and people of color, who either majored in STEM or started but dropped a ...
Katherine Rainey +4 more
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Undoing the Mirage of Racism through Philosophy of Race
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022 Preview: No shortage of bigotry and prejudice can be found around the world. But why race to the bottom and compete for a monopoly on tragedy in human mistreatment?
Myron Moses Jackson
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New Journal of Physics, 2021 We consider a sequential cascade of molecular first-reaction events towards a terminal reaction centre in which each reaction step is controlled by diffusive motion of the particles.
Denis S Grebenkov +2 more
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Recent advances in imaging subcellular processes [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
F1000Research, 2016 Cell biology came about with the ability to first visualize cells. As microscopy techniques advanced, the early microscopists became the first cell biologists to observe the inner workings and subcellular structures that control life. This ability to see
Kenneth A. Myers +1 more
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Reclaiming Race as a Topic of the U.S. Biology Textbook Curriculum
, 2015 Even though human racial difference has been a longstanding topic of the school biology curriculum, there is little evidence that contemporary biology textbooks challenge stereotypical racial beliefs that are based in biological thinking.
B. Donovan
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