May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
The Lyme Disease Foundation (LDF) is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to finding solutions for tick-borne disorders.
Realizing the ability to find solutions involves a multi-discipline effort, the LDF includes the four cornerstones of progress (businesses,
patients, government, and the medical community) to work together to find solutions to tick-borne disorders.
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LifeScience Moment: The first member of the horse family was cloned
On May 4, 2003, the first member of the horse family was cloned.
University of Idaho-Utah State University researchers became the first in the world
to clone a member of the horse family when Idaho Gem, the first clone of a hybrid animal,
and Utah Pioneer and Idaho Star his genetically identical brother clones, were born May 4, 2003.
A mule is a cross between a female horse, a mare, and a male donkey, a jack. As hybrids,
mules are sterile, except in very rare cases. The foal’s DNA was from a fetal cell culture
first established in 1998 at the University of Idaho.
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It is a Small World
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Science Quote
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
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(1854-1912)
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