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Today we’re not only facing a critical shortage of skilled nurses, exacerbated by pandemic burnout layered onto the aging nursing workforce, but we’re also confronted with the fact that most licensed nurses are simply not patient-ready on their first day of practice. While approximately 23% of novice nurses achieved an acceptable competency score for entry-level clinical judgment in 2015, that …

Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process by which cancer cells detach from their neighbouring cells and acquire invasive properties, plays a key role in the formation of metastases and the development of resistance to anticancer treatments. Researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) have now showed that Netrin-1, a molecule expressed by tumour cells in different types of cancers, stimulates …