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Lipopolysaccharide and its threatening zombie-like nature: unlive, harmful and tough (but not impossible) to eliminate

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Knot Theory and its applications

Fighting Tobacco Smoking - a Difficult but Not Impossible Battle

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco-related disease is the single largest preventable cause of death in the world today, killing around 5.4 million people a year--an average of one person every six seconds. The total number of death caused by tobacco consumption is higher than that of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. Unlike other communicable diseases, however,...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection in the West: difficult but not impossible

The detection rate of early gastric cancer (EGC) in the West constitutes 10% of endoscopically diagnosed gastric carcinoma cases. In contrast, Japanese endoscopists recognize 50% of gastric cancer at an early stage [1]. In these cases, endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique is considered as the first option for accurate histopathological assessment and alternative therapy to surgery i...

of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications

We give a diagrammatic definition of Uq(sl2) when q is not a root of unity, including the Hopf algebra structure and relationship with the Temperley-Lieb category. Quantum groups, knot diagrams, skein theory.