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: Philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps founded the Scripps Metabolic Clinic."
On Dec. 11, 1924, philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, inspired in part by the discovery of insulin, founded the Scripps Metabolic Clinic,
a specialized facility to diagnose, treat, and investigate diabetes and other disorders of metabolism.
The clinic was initially part of Scripps Memorial Hospital (founded in September of the same year), which was run by Dr. James Sherrill.
Today, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is one of the world's largest independent, not-for-profit organizations focusing on research in the
biomedical sciences.
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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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Rickettsia rickettsii, the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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Science Quote
"The First Clarke Law states, 'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong."
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Arthur C. Clarke, Writer,
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