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  • Vitamin E is a complex of eight different isoforms alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-tocopherol; and alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-tocotrienol that were discovered decades apart.

    Craig Cooper: The Real Facts About Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer Craig Cooper 2011

  • PFGE, the molecular-fingerprint technique, had not been invented yet,14 but the MRSA strains in the addicts and in the Henry Ford patients were resistant to exactly the same medications: methicillin and all the beta- lactams, and two additional classes of drugs.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • PFGE, the molecular-fingerprint technique, had not been invented yet,14 but the MRSA strains in the addicts and in the Henry Ford patients were resistant to exactly the same medications: methicillin and all the beta- lactams, and two additional classes of drugs.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • PFGE, the molecular-fingerprint technique, had not been invented yet,14 but the MRSA strains in the addicts and in the Henry Ford patients were resistant to exactly the same medications: methicillin and all the beta- lactams, and two additional classes of drugs.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • It turned out to be good that they objected, because C. H. Li and his collaborators soon started using the terms alpha-, beta- and gamma-endorphin to describe three different types of endorphins they had discovered.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • It turned out to be good that they objected, because C. H. Li and his collaborators soon started using the terms alpha-, beta- and gamma-endorphin to describe three different types of endorphins they had discovered.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

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