Article Summary: If you’ve ever smelled rancid butter or parmesan cheese, or worse, vomit, then you know the distinctively unpleasant smell of butyric acid. Naturally found in milk, butter, and parmesan cheese, and as an anaerobic fermentation product in the human gut, butyric acid stinks. Its name derives from the Latin word for butter, butyrum, […]

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As a first-line treatment for cancer, chemotherapy saves the lives of countless individuals who wouldn’t otherwise survive their illness. At the same time, it is one of the most feared treatments in medicine because of its destructive and wide-ranging side effects. I

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