<p>Colombia has historically been known as a fragmented country because of its poor territorial integration. This dissertation intends to transcend the traditional way in which this (dis)integration process has been studied, ...

<p>In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in ...

<p>Noise-induced stabilization occurs when an unstable deterministic system is stabilized by the addition of white noise. Proving that this phenomenon occurs for a particular system is often manifested through the ...

<p><p>Nociceptors are specialized primary sensory neurons that represent the first line of defense against potentially tissue damaging environmental stimuli, and are involved in pathological pain states caused by nerve ...

<p>The development and function of the nervous system relies on complex regulation of gene expression programs. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that have diverse functions in mammalian development and disease. In concert ...

<p>Although much research has focused on cognitive ability and the genetic and environmental factors that might influence it, this aspect of human nature is still far from being well understood. It has been well-established ...

<p>Various types of genetic constructs are widely used as diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic tools for human diseases. They are also the workhorse in biotech and pharmaceutical industry for production of therapeutic ...

<p>Gliomas are tumors of the central nervous system for which improvements in treatment are critically needed. Mutations in IDH1 and IDH2, which encode the cytosolic and mitochondrial NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenases, ...

<p>In a mouse model of ischemic stroke, infarct volume is highly variable and strain dependent, but the natural genetic determinants responsible for this difference remain unknown. To identify genetic determinants regulating ...

<p>An unresolved problem in evolutionary biology is the nature of forces that maintain standing variation for quantitative traits. In this study we take advantage of newly developed genomic resources to understand how ...