August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month.
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy has been coordinating a National Awareness Month for SMA since 1996.
Raising awareness of SMA in the general public can help lead to increased resources for SMA research and
better care for SMA patients. The majority of people, including doctors, nurses and community members,
do not know about SMA until it directly affects them. This is where you can help.
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LifeScience Moment: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Cancer Institute Act.
The National Cancer Institute Act, P.L. 244, 75th Congress, was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 5, 1937, "To provide for, foster,
and aid in coordinating research relating to cancer; to establish the National Cancer Institute; and for other purposes." An appropriation of $700,000 for
each fiscal year was authorized.
Congress made the NCI an operating division of the National Institutes of Health by the Public Health Service Act on July 1, 1944, and Congress
amended the Public Health Service Act with the National Cancer Act in 1971 that broaden the scope and responsibilities of the NCI "in order more effectively
to carry out the national effort against cancer."
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Where do we come from?
Explore the genealogy of life science companies through one-of-a-kind posters!
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It's a Small World
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Pollen Grain
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Science Quote
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
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(1854-1912)
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Info.Resource, owner and publisher of Virginia LifeScience.com and the upcoming LifeScienceHistory.com, want
to thank all of the front line workers who have supported us during the COVID-19 Pandemic, an historical crisis not
experienced since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19.
