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nit

Egg case of the louse, which is glued to the base of the host's hair.



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If I were picking nits, I might even omit 'successfully,'" Kimble wrote.
The proposition goes on to initially ban research with adult stem cells and umbilical cord stem cells, which, technically speaking, are the only kinds of stem cells that have produced any significant results and which - again, picking nits - have numerous advantages over embryonic stem cells.
He also found the painstaking process of picking nits is unnecessary.
 
 
 
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