May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month.
Each year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) declares May to be "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month." It's a peak
season for asthma and allergy sufferers, and a perfect time to educate your patients, family, friends, co-workers and others about these diseases.
May is a great time to help raise awareness and funds for asthma and allergic diseases. To get involved this May, start raising funds and
awareness for asthma and allergies today!
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LifeScience Moment: The world's first cloned horse was born.
The world's first cloned horse named Prometea was born May 28, 2003 at the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, Italy.
Prometea was the successful outcome of 328 attempts to construct and implant a viable embryo.
To create Prometea, scientists took a skin cell from an adult mare which was fused with an empty equine egg. The mare then acted as a surrogate
mother for Prometea - so giving birth to a carbon copy of herself.
Thoroughbred horseracing is strictly controlled and the regulatory associations do not permit artificial insemination or any kind of
fertility treatment. The cloning technique could have a particular role in perpetuating the sporting success of male show and jump horses
that have been castrated. Geldings, which have their testicles removed at an early age, have no ability to reproduce normally.
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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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Salmonella Typhimurium (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."
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Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher and mathematician
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(1861-1947)
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