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FWIW we also find that flies show coagulopathy, another big cause of death of cancer patients pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37354901/
Systemic coagulopathy promotes host lethality in a new Drosophila tumor model - PubMed
Malignant tumors trigger a complex network of inflammatory and wound repair responses, prompting Dvorak's characterization of tumors as "wounds that never heal."<sup>1</sup> Some of these responses le...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
FWIW we also find that flies show coagulopathy, another big cause of death of cancer patients pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37354901/
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We used live-cell imaging with plus-end binding protein EB3 to determine microtubule polarity in astrocytes for the first time. They are ~88% plus-ends out.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We used live-cell imaging with plus-end binding protein EB3 to determine microtubule polarity in astrocytes for the first time. They are ~88% plus-ends out.
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