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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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A Linked Aggregate Code for Processing Faces (Revised Version) [PDF]
, 2020 A model of face representation, inspired by the biology of the visual system, is compared to experimental data on the perception of facial similarity. The face representation model uses aggregate primary visual cortex (V1) cell responses topographically linked to a grid covering the face, allowing comparison of shape and texture at corresponding points
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Functions of animal microRNA‐encoded peptides: the race is on!
EMBO Reports, 2022 Short open reading frame (sORF)‐encoded peptides (SEPs) recently emerged as new key players in biology. Pioneering work first established that sORFs encoded by long non‐coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are efficiently translated and produce functional peptides.
C. Dozier, S. Plaza
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Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla +9 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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Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere +5 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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A stepwise emergence of evolution in the RNA world
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.How did biological evolution emerge from chemical reactions? This perspective proposes a gradual scenario of self‐organization among RNA molecules, where catalytic feedback on random mixtures plays the central role. Short oligomers cross‐ligate, and self‐assembly enables heritable variations. An event of template‐externalization marks the transition to
Philippe Nghe
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