May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week.
National Women’s Health Week is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health.
It brings together communities, businesses, government, health organizations, and
other groups in an effort to promote women’s health.
The theme for 2012 is “It’s Your Time.” National Women’s Health Week empowers
women to make their health a top priority. It also encourages women to take the
following steps to improve their physical and mental health and lower their risks
of certain diseases
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LifeScience Moment: The FDA approved of the first genetically modified food: the "Flavr Savr" tomato.
On May 17, 1994 the U.S. FDA approved of the first genetically modified food: the
"Flavr Savr" tomato produced by Calgene in California. The tomato was made more
resistant to rotting by the addion of an antisense gene which interfered with the
production of the enzyme polygalacturonase that degrades the pectin in the cell
walls resulting in the ripening of fruit and distribution of the fruits seeds.
The Flavr Savr tomatoes subsequently could ripen on the vine resulting in a larger,
more flavorable tomato. The Flavr Savr was marketed from 1994-1997, but higher production
and distribution costs prevented Calgene from becoming profitable, and the technolgy
was sold to the Monsanto Company.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Anthrax Bacteria (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
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Albert Einstein
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(1879-1955)
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