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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Bone, Sweet Bone...

Although sweets can help weaken teeth, sugars are apparently key to making bone strong. The extraordinary strength of bone depends on the complex, precise way in which its organic and inorganic components are ordered. Scientists had long thought that collagen and other proteins directly control the... Sign in to see full entry.

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