Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
Structure of the water molecule
Geometry of bonds when carbon is covalently linked to three or four other atoms
Which end (5' or 3') of the molecule is here?
amphipathic lipid molecule
Achiral Molecule with Multiple Stereocenters
An electron micrograph and an interpretive drawing of the hybrid molecule