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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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
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It is believed that humans initially contracted crabs from gorillas about 3 million years ago from either sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
Plant Embryogenesis
The Plant Cell Wall
Plant
induced pluripotent stem cells
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