Great Pacific garbage patch. The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered between 1985 and 1988. It is located roughly between 135Â°W to 155Â°W and 35Â°N and 42Â°N. The patch extends over an indeterminate area of widely varying range depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area. The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative pelagic concentrations of plastic ...
A bruit is caused by turbulent blood flow in an artery which supplies blood to the brain. Increased stenosis of a carotid artery results in increased duration, intensity, and pitch of the bruit. A carotid bruit and a basal heart murmur are easily confused.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. (2017, August 21). Searching for the 'signature' causes of BRCAness in breast cancer: Mutation pattern or 'signature' linked to defects in 2 genes points to other ways an important DNA repair mechanism can be shut off in breast cancer.