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Ovarian cancer cells resist chemo and strengthen neighbors to survive

Ovarian cancer is the fifth biggest cause of cancer death in women, and part of its frustrating stubbornness to treat and high level of recurrence may be down to some surprisingly cellular cooperation.A new study has shed light on the way chemotherapy-resistant quiescent cells behave during and after treatment and how they directly impact the cancer cells around them.Chemotherapy largely targets rapidly dividing cancer cells, which makes the slow-dividing quiescent cells difficult to treat. Researchers from the University…

‘Madame Web’ Star Couldn’t Resist the Lure of Joining a Blockbuster Marvel Movie

Photo via AppleTV+ Actor Adam Scott reveals that he couldn’t pass on the chance to appear in a spin-off film for one of the most successful franchises in the MCU. According to Collider, the Big Little Lies star said that he seized the opportunity to appear in the upcoming Marvel movie Madame Webb with both hands. He explained: “I actually didn’t think I was gonna work over the summer before we started Severance up again because we started in October, and I wasn’t planning on working at all before then. Then…

Stephen King Shares His Favorite Cheese But Can’t Resist Making The Worst Dad Joke Of All Time

Larry French/Getty Images. If this whole writing thing doesn’t work out, it looks like Stephen King can always turn to comedy. The 75-year-old author and icon took to Twitter this morning to share some of the worst dad jokes we’ve ever heard. Literally, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, it was pretty darn awesome. Everyone’s got to have a fallback, right? Did he really have to be this… cheesy? OK so this particular joke was an absolute breeze. The set up was there, all Stephen King had to do was…

How Antidepressants Help Bacteria Resist Antibiotics

The emergence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is often attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock. But researchers have homed in on another potential driver of resistance: antidepressants. By studying bacteria grown in the laboratory, a team has now tracked how antidepressants can trigger drug resistance. “Even after a few days exposure, bacteria develop drug resistance, not only against one but multiple antibiotics,” says senior author Jianhua Guo, who works at the…

Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) Posts 655% Gains While Avalanche (AVAX) And Fantom (FTM) Resist The Bear Market

The bear market has caused a lot of projects to stagnate in the crypto market. Projects with a faulty foundation were the first to receive the shock waves; even big titans like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are also experiencing losses generated by market forces. However, three projects that are still standing strong are Orbeon Protocol (ORBN), Avalanche (AVAX) and Fantom (FTM). Ahead, we will learn why Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) is gaining massive momentum following a 655% increase in presale and why Avalanche (AVAX) and…

Newly Discovered Virus Similar to COVID Could Infect Humans and Resist Vaccines

The research discovered that spike proteins from a bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells.A virus discovered in a Russian bat that is related to <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>SARS-CoV-2</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name of the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Previous to this name being adopted, it…

Casablanca at 80: a golden age classic that remains impossible to resist | Casablanca

Many of the greatest films of all time have some triumph-over-adversity story to buffer their mythology: a chaotic production, weak box office, critics that didn’t get it at the time, a loss to some forgettable film during awards season. Their greatness has to be elusive and mysterious, in other words, something that couldn’t be comprehended until later, when they finally got the full appreciation they always deserved. The path to canonization tends to have its own, often formulaic narrative.That’s not what happened with…

Review: To Live Is to Resist; The Life of Antonio Gramsci by Jean-Yves Frétigné

French historian Jean-Yves Frétigné’s biography of Antonio Gramsci, Vivre, c’est resister was published in 2017 in the 50th anniversary year of John M Cammett’s seminal work, Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism. Cammett was the father of Gramsci studies outside Italy. To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci is the book’s English version translated by Laura Marris. This latest biography opens a new window on Gramsci studies, which had already become a PhD industry by the mid-1970s. With an…

Apple continues to resist RCS, wants everyone to buy an iPhone

Last updated: September 8th, 2022 at 17:20 UTC+02:00 Apple has no intentions of ending the blue-green chat bubble war, which means that Android and iOS smartphone users alike will continue to have a sub-optimal messaging experience whenever they communicate cross-platform via SMS. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently had a conversation with Kara Swisher, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs at Code Conference. When it came to the Q&A section, one audience member asked Mr. Tim about Apple’s plans and refusal to adopt the RCS…