The lipid bilayer is made of phospholipids. They are arranged in a double layer because one of their ends is attracted to water while the other is repelled by water.
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Warfarin was developed as a consequence of the study of a strange bleeding disorder that suddenly occurred in cattle on the northern prairies of the United States in the early 1900s.
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Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
Examples of Assessment Questions for Cancer Survivors
Example of a patient statement.
Piaget's research involved several kinds of conservation tasks
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A GWAS study for Type 2 diabetes revealed 386,371 genetic markers, clustered here by chromosome numb
Manhattan plots resulting from a genome-wide association study of seven common human disease