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: Bayh-Dole Act passed Congress allowing universities to patent discoveries made in federally supported labs.
On Dec. 12, 1980 A bill to amend title 35 of the United States Code (H.R.6933, Public Law: 96-517),
known as the Bayh-Dole Act provided for the legal transfer of research and technology originating from U.S.
universities and federal laboratories to private companies for commercialization.
Technology transfer offices are now common in universities and federal laboratories and are the technology
foundation for numerous life science companies.
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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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Cancer Cell Culture
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Science Quote
" "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.""
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz -German philosopher and mathematician
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(1646-1716)
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