In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
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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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Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
The life cycle of the early diverging moss genus, Sphagnum, illustrating reproductive adaptations th