Infection and inflammation account for approximately 25% of cancer-causing factors.
Inflammation-related cancers are characterized by mutagenic DNA lesions, such as 8-oxo-7 …

During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …

A wide spectrum of metabolites (mainly, the three major nutrients and their derivatives) can
be sensed by specific sensors, then trigger a series of signal transduction pathways and …

Maternal and paternal factors influence offspring development and program its genome for
successful postnatal life. Based on the stressors during gestation, the pregnant female …

Human nutrition is a branch of medicine based on foods biochemical interactions with the
human body. The phenotypic transition from health to disease status can be attributed to …

Cells of a multicellular organism are genetically homogeneous but structurally and
functionally heterogeneous owing to the differential expression of genes. Many of these …

Epidemiological evidence increasingly suggests that environmental exposures early in
development have a role in susceptibility to disease in later life. In addition, some of these …

For several exposures, it has been proved that chemicals can alter epigenetic marks, and
that the same or similar epigenetic alterations can be found in patients with the disease of …

Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies and remains the second leading
cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Over 70% of new cases and deaths occur in …

Neurospora crassa is a central organism in the history of twentieth-century genetics,
biochemistry and molecular biology. Here, we report a high-quality draft sequence of the N …