"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." (Margaret Thatcher) "It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own." (Herbert Samuel) ...

Figure 1: Characteristic drug responses of resistance, tolerance and persistence. Experimental discrimination between the different strategies used by bacterial cells for survival during exposure to ...

Picture by Omer Messinger/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved. Tolerance is vital to the functioning of modern, liberal democracies. In societies where individual ...

Tolerance is the latest in a string of Kremlin box-office flops. In 2023, The Witness grossed less than 14 million roubles (£110,000) in its first two weeks, despite costing 200 million roubles (£1.5m ...

Disease tolerance is an evolutionarily conserved defence strategy against infection that does not exert a direct negative effect on the host pathogen load. Disease tolerance relies on tissue damage ...

Impaired glucose tolerance means that blood glucose is raised beyond normal levels, but not high enough to warrant a diabetes diagnosis With impaired glucose tolerance you face a much greater risk of ...

Study reveals how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of both food allergies and intestinal diseases. With every bite of food we take, ...

Some years ago, just after Salman Rushdie was made the object of a fatwa, I found myself at an academic conference listening to a panel address the issues raised by his situation. A member of the ...

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Why does chilli get some of us all hot and bothered, and is there anything we can do to deal with the heat better? We’ve spoken to a range of experts – from scientists to chilli farmers – to get the ...