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...become some of the most important weapons in our fight against disease. When considering drugs used for the treatment of disease, your first thoughts might lean towards treatments involving organic compounds. But metals and their compounds have been used for medical applications since ancient times. The use of metal-containing drugs is a wide-ranging, exciting and...

...become high enough for nuclear fusion to be initiated in their cores. At this point, the clouds stop contracting further and are maintained in hydrostatic equilibrium with a balance between the inward force of gravity and the outward force due to their internal pressure. Stars are typically initially composed of about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium, with small traces of...

...become either further tyrosine phosphorylated (characterized by the enlarged bands in treated cells (bottom two arrows)) or newly phosphorylated (top three arrows), the effect mostly wearing off within an hour. SCF binds to a receptor tyrosine kinase called ‘c-Kit’, which is probably both directly and indirectly responsible for the phosphorylations seen here. (Data...

...become apparent when compared to a different model or categorisation or theory. I remember being quite startled when I was told that the Inuit of North America had many different words for snow. Here was a thing (one thing) in my conceptualisation of the world, which another group of people found helpful to divide into many different categories. As another example, there...