It was created to seal split ends while you're growing out your hair.

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Full discovered that geckos are able to race up vertical plains so quickly because of millions of tiny hairs containing billions of even tinier split ends on the pads of their feet, which are able to almost instantaneously stick and unstick themselves to surfaces.

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The split ends a decades-long partnership that appeared to unravel after Lilly signed a deal earlier this year with Boehringer Ingelheim to jointly develop and sell several diabetes compounds that are in mid- and late-stage development, including a Boehringer oral diabetes agent known as linagliptin.

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