Parkinson's disease is both chronic and progressive. This means that it persists over a long period of time and that its symptoms grow worse over time.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.