Thanksgiving is Family Health History Day.
In 2003, the U.S. Surgeon General declared Thanksgiving as the nation’s “Family Health History Day,” when families can share information
by using a secured web site portal: the My Family Health Portrait to gather their family’s health history in one place.
This tool is secure, free and takes about 20 minutes to create your unique family health portrait. Information can be shared with
other family members who may not be home for Thanksgiving. They can build on your Family Health Portrait by adding their health information
and can choose to share with you.
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LifeScience Moment: Congress passed the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act."
Nov. 23, 1977, Congress passed the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act to stop the FDA from banning the chemical sweetener.
The legislation instead required a warning on the label. The FDA proposed the ban because of safety concerns after studies
in which rats developed bladder cancer after receiving high doses of saccharin.
In 2000, the National Toxicology Program determined that saccharin should no longer be listed as a potential
cancer-causing agent.
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Where do we come from?
Explore the genealogy of the life science industry by state or province through one-of-a-kind posters
illustrating the founding technology origins of life science companies.
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It's a Small World
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Deinococcus Radiodurans
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Science Quote
"One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance."
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Murray Gell-Mann - U. S. Physicist (Nobel Prize, 1969)
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