Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.
The effective temperature, or black body temperature, of the Sun (5777 K) is the temperature a black
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Graph showing how the boiling point of the coolant increases as the percentage of antifreeze in ...