|
Author Question: In the late nineteenth century, American universities A. significantly grew in number due to the ... (Read 37 times) |
The liver is the only organ that has the ability to regenerate itself after certain types of damage. As much as 25% of the liver can be removed, and it will still regenerate back to its original shape and size. However, the liver cannot regenerate after severe damage caused by alcohol.
Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
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.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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.