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On velvet worms and caterpillars: science, fiction, or science fiction? [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2009 Velvet worms (phylum Onychophora) are fascinating animals. Their colored velvety skin and glue-shooting organs attract the attention of nature lovers. Their geographical distribution across the former Gondwana fascinates biogeographers. Onychophora is also the single animal phylum with a strictly terrestrial distribution.
Giribet G.
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Physical Therapy, 1998 To the Editor: Recently, a research article on therapeutic Touch1 published in the Journal of the American Medical Association made headlines for debunking the philosophy practiced by the followers of this particular cult [an abstract of this article will appear in the September issue].
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Nature, 2001 Scientists deal with the facts. But they wouldn't get anywhere without dreaming up stories first.
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Leibniz vs Ishiguro: Closing a quarter-century of syncategoremania [PDF]
HOPOS (Journal of the International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science) Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2016, pp. 117-147, 2016 Did Leibniz exploit infinitesimals and infinities `a la rigueur, or only as shorthand for quantified propositions that refer to ordinary Archimedean magnitudes? Chapter 5 in (Ishiguro 1990) is a defense of the latter position, which she reformulates in terms of Russellian logical fictions.
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Evidencing the interaction between science fiction enthusiasm and career aspirations in the UK astronomy community [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The anecdotal connection between an interest in science fiction and career aspirations in astrophysics is well established. However strong statistical evidence for such a connection, and a quantitative assessment of its prevalence, has been missing. Here I report the results of two surveys examining the connection between science fiction enthusiasm and
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Looking for Design in Materials Design [PDF]
Nature Materials 3, 659 (2004), 2004 Despite great advances in computation, materials design is still science fiction. The construction of structure-property relations on the quantum scale will turn computational empiricism into true design.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Breast cancer metastasis is associated with myeloid cell dysregulation and the lung‐specific accumulation of tumor‐supportive Gr1+ cells. Gr1+ cells support metastasis, in part, through a CHI3L1‐mediated mechanism, which can be targeted and inhibited with cargo‐free, polymeric nanoparticles.
Jeffrey A. Ma +9 more
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Understanding and measuring mechanical signals in the tumor stroma
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This review discusses cancer‐associated fibroblast subtypes and their functions, particularly in relation to extracellular matrix production, as well as the development of 3D models to study tumor stroma mechanics in vitro. Several quantitative techniques to measure tissue mechanical properties are also described, to emphasize the diagnostic and ...
Fàtima de la Jara Ortiz +3 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.The tumor microenvironment is a dynamic, multifaceted complex system of interdependent cellular, biochemical, and biophysical components. Three‐dimensional in vitro models of the tumor microenvironment enable a better understanding of these interactions and their impact on cancer progression and therapeutic resistance.
Salma T. Rafik +3 more
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