Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
A proposed molecular mechanism of prion diseases.
A proposed pathway for the action of the E. coli chaperonins GroEL
Proposed relationships between living and fossil platyrrhines and catarrhines.