Interferon was scarce and expensive until 1980, when the interferon gene was inserted into bacteria using recombinant DNA technology, allowing for mass cultivation and purification from bacterial cultures.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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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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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
A molecular model showing chromosome territories in the cell nucleus of humans