December is Prevent Blindness: Safe Toys and Gifts Month.
Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness America is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight.
Focused on promoting a continuum of vision care, Prevent Blindness America touches the lives of millions of people each year.
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LifeScience Moment: The National Institutes of Health established Human Microbiome Project.
On Dec. 19, 2007, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), a $150 million initiative, was established by the National Institutes of Health's Common Fund.
The Common Fund's Human Microbiome Project (HMP) aims to characterize the microbial communities found at several different sites on the human body,
including nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract, and to analyze the role of these microbes in human health and disease.
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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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Ebola Virus (Photo: Courtesy Frederick Murphy)
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Science Quote
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe."
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Albert Einstein
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(1879-1955)
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