Considering the three largest states in the USA, California, Texas, and Florida, it is California that has the least number of disasters with the lowest cost burden, by far, of the three. Texas, of course, is the number one disaster state. Yet, when the state of California faces a disaster, Republican politicians, especially those from …
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Analyses of tumors sometimes reveal a gene rearrangement or mutation, but no DNA mutations are found in many cancers, suggesting that mechanisms for cancer initiation are broader than is typically thought. Thinking outside the cancer mutation box. In the nineteen-seventies, Dr. Mina Bissell, Ph.D., a professor at UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Lab, was establishing …
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Stem Cells, Health, Technology 