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Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Cell Motility, and Gene Expression
In previous DREAM-High activities, we studied cancer patient data from TCGA. Here we switch to a different kind of cancer model: human cancer cell lines. Cancer cell lines are cells that can grow in the laboratory. Researchers use them to study cancer biology and to test hypotheses about cancer behavior.
In this activity, we will compare two breast cancer cell lines:
- T-47D
- MDA-MB-231
We will ask: Do differences in cell movement correspond to differences in gene expression?
This is a core idea in systems biology: we connect a measurable behavior, or phenotype, to molecular data.
Beyond Self-Discovery: Ginhawa and the Relational Constitution of Filipino Tourist Experience
Tourism theory frequently represents travel as an individualized project of escape, self-discovery, authenticity, and personal transformation. Although these accounts have generated durable insights, their underlying image of the tourist as an autonomous subject may obscure forms of well-being constituted through shared presence, obligation, care, and return. This conceptual article develops *ginhawa*, a Filipino idea encompassing embodied ease, relational continuity, and relief from constriction, as an alternative framework for interpreting tourist experience. It argues that tourism may facilitate movement from *sikip*, or embodied, temporal, material, and relational constriction, toward *luwag*, an opening of capacity, through the interdependent processes of *pahinga*, or embodied-temporal restoration, and *pakikipagkapwa*, or relational recognition and shared personhood. The article contributes to critical tourism studies by showing how concepts developed outside Euro-American theoretical traditions can revise, rather than merely diversify, accounts of tourist well-being.