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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
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.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.