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Organic acids
Organic acid is a type of organic compound that typically has acidic properties. A common example of organic acids are called carboxyl acids, which are generally known as weak acids and do not totally dissociate in a medium such as water, unlike with strong minerals.
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...
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Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 11, 2016
Microbiology
Hate going to the dentist? There’s a bacterium for that. University of Florida Researchers identified a new strain
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Health & Medicine
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Microbiology
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Health & Medicine
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Cell & Molecular Biology
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FEB 11, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
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JAN 25, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
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JAN 23, 2016
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JAN 20, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
JAN 13, 2016
Health & Medicine
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JAN 10, 2016
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DEC 18, 2015
Microbiology
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...
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DEC 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
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DEC 10, 2015
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...
DEC 09, 2015
Microbiology
Animals aren’t the only organisms with complex microbiomes. Like humans, insects house a variety of bacteria
...
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Kerry Evans
DEC 03, 2015
Cardiology
A large amount of energy is required for cardiomyocytes, muscle cells of the heart, to perform all of the vital function
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 09, 2015
Health & Medicine
Imagine this: Your child is at football practice afterschool when he collides head-on with another teammate. He is stunn
...
OCT 06, 2015
Videos
In Kannapolis, North Carolina, there's a research campus devoted to "redefining the future of healthcare" by joining pub
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 27, 2015
Neuroscience
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...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 09, 2015
Microbiology
Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped an
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 04, 2015
Earth & The Environment
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...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
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...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider