AAAS:   Spoken of as the "triple-AS", the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an organization concerned not only with the biomedical sciences but with ....
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The synbol for the enzyme arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase and for the gene that encodes it. AANAT is present in animals, bacteria and yeast but in no other living organisms. AANAT belongs....
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The abdomen includes a host of organs including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, appendix, gallbladder, and bladder. The word "abdomen&....
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The abdomen includes a host of organs including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, appendix, gallbladder, and bladder. The word "abdomen&....
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It wrought so well that if all the physicians of Montpelier and Louaine had been there, with all the drugs of Alexandria, they would not have done as much in one yere as that tree did in six....
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A unit of measure, like an inch or a pound. Calories measure the amount of energy your body gets from food. You need energy to be physically active and for your body to grow and function. Ca....
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 Acts cooperatively with other substances to control insulin and certain enzymes

Formation of red blood cells, pigment, bone health.

Vitamin I is an old term for biotin. The term "vitamin I" was also used as an old term for vitamin B7. The term "vitamin I" was proposed for an undiscovered substance com....
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Essential to life, these thirteen organic compounds perform dozens of vital jobs in the body. Vitamin entered our vocabulary only in 1912, when the first one — thiamin or B1 — wa....
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