January is Thyroid Awareness Month.
The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is the leading organization devoted to thyroid biology
and to the prevention and treatment of thyroid disease through excellence in research,
clinical care, education, and public health.
More than 12 percent of the U.S. population will develop a thyroid condition during
their lifetime. An estimated 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and
up to 60 percent of those with thyroid disease are unaware of their condition.
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LifeScience Moment: Legislation in Tennessee called for a ban on the teaching of evolution.
On Jan. 21, 1925, Rep. John Washington Butler introduced legislation in the Tennessee House of Representatives that called for a ban on the teaching of
evolution.
The proposed law, known as the Butler bill, would prohibit the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as
taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
In April 2012, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam refused to sign a bill that would permit discussion of creationism in classrooms alongside the
evolutionary-based explanation of the origins of life, but allowed the bill to become law. Today, the term “evolution” in the Tennessee
educational standards has been replaced with the phrase “change over time” which has a very different meaning that term "evolution."
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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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Clostridium Difficile Bacteria (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
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(1749-1832)
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