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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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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.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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For high blood pressure (hypertension), a new class of drug, called a vasopeptidase blocker (inhibitor), has been developed. It decreases blood pressure by simultaneously dilating the peripheral arteries and increasing the body's loss of salt.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.