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Who knew pee could be so interesting

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09-09-2013 1:28am

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BAA RAM EWE

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Researchers at the University of Alberta announced today that they have determined the chemical composition of human urine. The study, which took more than seven years and involved a team of nearly 20 researchers, has revealed that more than 3,000 chemicals or "metabolites" can be detected in urine. The results are expected to have significant implications for medical, nutritional, drug and environmental testing.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130905085919.htm

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#2 09-09-2013 7:34am
Dingle_berry

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Pee is great, it's taken all the time in medicine to test for things from tumour cells to glucose.
It's actually how a close relatives cancer was caught at a very early stage, during a medical the urine dipstick detected blood. Otherwise it wouldn't have been found til....

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