The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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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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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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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.
he White-throated Bee-eater, Merops albicollis is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Mero
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Areas of sclerosis (see arrows) in the white matter of a patient with MS.
