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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.
In 2006, a generic antinausea drug named ondansetron was approved. It is used to stop nausea and vomiting associated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.