Science friday? Appendix may be useful after all
October 5th, 2007 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society, Parker said. If a person‚Äôs gut flora dies, they can usually repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people, he said. But before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn‚Äôt as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy.
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By visual dvd on Jan 1, 2008 | Reply
Genetic testing on unborn children is, is not ethical