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Under President Donald Trump, the once “indispensable nation” that won World War II and built a new world order has become dispensable indeed.

Also called the afterbirth, it’s the human body’s only dispensable organ, which you once grew of your own flesh, in your earliest weeks and months in the womb, then, upon entering the world, no longer needed.

“It is very shocking that such a large collection at a wealthy university would be deemed dispensable,” said Regina Baucom, a plant geneticist at the University of Michigan.

However, Contet's collaborator Alex Dopico, MD, PhD, of the University of Tennessee, had identified a residue in the mouse BK α subunit that is required for ethanol to activate BK channels but is dispensable for normal BK channel activity, as shown in frog eggs.

“China-U.S. cooperation is no longer a dispensable option for the two countries or even for the world, but a must-answer question that must be seriously addressed,” he said.