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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.