Gamma GT is a liver enzyme which is raised in liver and bile duct diseases. It is used in conjunction with ALP to distinguish between bone or liver disease. Gamma GT is also used to diagnose alcohol abuse as it is raised in 75% of long term drinkers.
Physicists announced on July 4, 2012, that, with more than 99 percent certainty, they had found a new elementary particle weighing about 126 times the mass of the proton that was likely the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs is sometimes referred to as the God particle, to the chagrin of many scientists, who prefer its official name.
Boron was first discovered as a new element in 1808. It was discovered simultaneously by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy and French chemists Joseph L. Gay-Lussac and Louis J. Thenard. The first nearly pure boron was produced in 1909 by American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub. Where did boron get its name? The name boron comes from the mineral borax which gets its name from the Arabic word burah. Isotopes Boron has two stable and naturally occurring isotopes. They are Boron-10 and Boron-11. There are thirteen known isotopes of the element. Interesting Facts about Boron