THE 21ST CENTURY AGRICULTURE: WHEN RICE RESEARCH DRAWS ATTENTION TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND HOW WEEDY RICE AND UNDERUTILIZED GRAINS COME IN HANDY

The 21st Century Agriculture: When Rice Research Draws Attention to Climate Variability and How Weedy Rice and Underutilized Grains Come in Handy

Rice, the Rocker Arm first crop to be fully sequenced and annotated in the mid-2000s, is an excellent model species for crop research due mainly to its relatively small genome and rich genetic diversity.The 130-million-year-old cereal came into the limelight in the 1960s when the semi-dwarfing gene sd-1, better known as the “green revolution&

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NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PREJUDICE

Science exists to refute dogmas; nevertheless, dogmas may be introduced when undemonstrated scientific axioms lead us to reject facts incompatible with them.Several studies have proposed psychobiological interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), claiming that NDEs are a byproduct of brain functions gone awry; however, relevant facts incompa

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Targeting myeloid-derived suppressor cells in combination with tumor cell vaccination predicts anti-tumor immunity and breast cancer dormancy: an in silico experiment

Abstract Among the different breast Boys Shirts cancer subsets, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has the worst prognosis and limited options for targeted therapies.Immunotherapies are emerging as novel treatment opportunities for TNBC.However, the surging immune response elicited by immunotherapies to eradicate cancer cells can select resistant

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