Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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There are actually 60 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino acids, and three essential fatty acids that your body needs every day.
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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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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Checkpoints in the cell cycle.
The steps in eukaryotic chromosomal compaction leading to the metaphase chromosome