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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
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According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, more than 50 million Americans have some kind of food allergy. Food allergies affect between 4 and 6% of children, and 4% of adults, according to the CDC. The most common food allergies include shellfish, peanuts, walnuts, fish, eggs, milk, and soy.
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GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
The frontal sinus, an airfilled space just behind the brow, is a unique size and shape in each of us
Typical computer-controlled diesel engine fuel injectors.
When an engine overheats, often the coolant overflow container boils.
Dust and dirt in the air are trapped in the air filter so they do not enter the engine.
A single overhead camshaft engine with a timing belt that also rotates the water pump.
If the vacuum hose is removed from the fuel-pressure regulator when the engine is running, the ...