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What are the biological mechanisms behind the increase in cancer risk and alcohol consumption?
Alcohol consumption is known to be a risk factor for developing cancer. Compared to obvious causes like tobacco where one is exposed to known carcinogens, I don't see an obvious mechanism by which ...
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Why must the alcohol decolorizer be used for 30 seconds or less for Gram staining?
I had today a class in microbiology and my teacher said that the Decolorizer component is the critical one and cannot be more than 30 seconds.
The decolorizer has alcohol in high concentration, my ...
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Why does alcohol cause the hemolysis of RBC in a large proportion?
I had today an experiment that we put 95% alcohol to the blood which made it completely transparent so hemolysis must have occurred.
I started to think about the reasons.
I think that this is because ...
