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Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
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.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.