In contrast to other commonly-diagnosed cancers like colorectal and lung cancer, the five-year survival rate after diagnosis for pancreatic cancer is alarmingly low, at 8.5% in Japan. Identity changes ...

Personal identity links who we are, once were, and could become. Though seemingly fixed, identity can be modified. Indeed, identity transformation is sometimes necessary, even therapeutic—e.g., to ...

All cells in the body contain the same DNA, but different cell types express different genes; skin cells express genes for the skin, liver cells express liver genes, and so on. This coordination is ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Hector Institute für Translational ...

A study using organoids derived from patients' pancreatic cancer tissues revealed that a subset of highly aggressive form of pancreatic cancer, called adenosquamous carcinoma, develop from a less ...