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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Comparison of small subunit rRNA gene sequences from three eukaryotes and three bacterial species
Approach used to determine the evolutionary relationships among many animal species using molecular
Amsterdam Albatross - Adult in flight, showing dark plumage typical of the species.
Human Population Blasts Off
The human mesencephalon (midbrain).
Human Genetic Disorders