November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is dedicated to increasing attention to a disease that each year kills more people than breast, prostate,
colon and pancreas cancers combined.
The Lung Cancer Alliance is the only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to patient support and advocacy for people
living with lung cancer and those at risk for the disease.
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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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Ebola Virions (Photo: Courtesy Cynthia Goldsmith)
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Science Quote
" "... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.""
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Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. physicist, (Nobel Prize, 1946)
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(1882-1961)
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