Calcitonin is a naturally occurring hormone. In women who are at least 5 years beyond menopause, it slows bone loss and increases spinal bone density.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Body plan of a flatworm.
Human neural stem cells derived from hESCs, engineered to over-express Olig2