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Walt Disney helped combat malaria by making an animated film in 1943 called The Winged Scourge. This short film starred the seven dwarfs and taught children that mosquitos transmit malaria, which is a very bad disease. It advocated the killing of mosquitos to stop the disease.
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Chronic marijuana use can damage the white blood cells and reduce the immune system's ability to respond to disease by as much as 40%. Without a strong immune system, the body is vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative and infectious diseases.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
The tundra at the base of the Torngat mountains in Labrador consists primarily of low-growing mosses
Structural similarities between antimetabolites and their natural counterparts.
Unusual base pairings in tRNA: (a, b) Some unusual pair matches
The 122-base lac regulatory region
Acid–Base Balance
The consequences of base-pair substitutions