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The crystalline form of a drug affects properties such as its solubility, stability, dissolution rate, bioavailability and tabletability, and so understanding the crystalline state is crucial for many ...

What do a human, a rose, and a bacterium have in common? Each of these things — along with every other organism on Earth — contains the molecular instructions for life, called deoxyribonucleic acid or ...

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Abstract: Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS, ripples) are a universal phenomenon and can be generated on almost any material upon irradiation with linearly polarized radiation. With the ...

Hair protects your skin and can renew itself without scarring. A hair has a follicle below the skin, made of live cells, and a shaft above the skin made of dead cells. Hair grows through three phases: ...