The traditional requirement for clean rooms and specialized skills has inhibited many biologists
from pursuing new microfluidic innovations. Makerspaces provide a growing alternative …

The authors critically analyzed a large series of patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) and
who underwent microvascular decompression (MVD) under a prospective protocol. We …

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive form of cancer that begins within the
brain; generally, the patient has a dismal prognosis and limited therapeutic options. Signal …

A number of recent reports have demonstrated that only CD133-positive cancer cells of
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have tumor-initiating potential. These findings raise an attractive …

Tumor recurrence following treatment is the major cause of mortality for glioblastoma multiforme
(GBM) patients. Thus, insights on the evolutionary process at recurrence are critical for …

Precision medicine in cancer proposes that genomic characterization of tumors can inform
personalized targeted therapies 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . However, this proposition is complicated by …

Frequent discrepancies between preclinical and clinical results of anticancer agents
demand a reliable translational platform that can precisely recapitulate the biology of human …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Methylation of the MGMT gene promoter is associated
with a favorable prognosis in adult patients with GBM treated with TMZ. We determined the …

BACKGROUD: The authors investigated whether expression of c‐Met protein in glioblastomas
is associated with overall survival and biologic features representing tumor invasiveness …

Abstract Properties of the soil and sand-binding vegetation were measured at five sites plus
a control on dunes of the Tengger Desert stabilized for periods of up to 50 years. In the …