June is PTSD Awareness Month.
The National Center for PTSD promotes awareness of PTSD and effective treatments throughout the year. Starting in 2010, Congress named
June 27th PTSD Awareness Day (S. Res. 455). Since then, during the month of June, we ask everyone to help us raise PTSD awareness.
The purpose of PTSD Awareness Month is to encourage everyone to raise public awareness of PTSD and its effective treatments so that everyone
can help people affected by PTSD.
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LifeScience Moment: Scientists decoded genome of Chagas disease.
On June 4, 2012, an international team of scientists decoded genome of Chagas disease.
The work took almost a decade and involved 30 researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada,
the U.S. and Uruguay, and was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Chagas disease is named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered the disease in 1909.
It is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and
people by insect vectors and is found only in the Americas. Because they tend to bite people’s faces,
triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs”.
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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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Lassa Fever Virus
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Science Quote
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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Albert Einstein
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