April 17 is World Hemophilia Day.
An estimated 1 in 1000 women and men has a bleeding disorder. However, 75% still receive
very inadequate treatment or no treatment at all. What will it take to close this gap?
On World Hemophilia Day help us spread the message to “Close the Gap” of care around the
world. Together, we can work towards a day when treatment will be available for all globally.
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LifeScience Moment: Salk polio vaccine was announced.
On April 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh was announced, exactly 10 years
after the death of President Roosevelt, a victim of polio.
In 1957, in an effort to improve upon the killed Salk vaccine, Albert Bruce Sabin began testing a live, oral form of vaccine in which the
infectious part of the virus was inactivated (attenuated). This vaccine became available for use in 1963.
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Where do we come from?
Explore the genealogy of life science companies through one-of-a-kind posters!
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It's a Small World
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Plant Cells
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Science Quote
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
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Mark Twain, American writer
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(1835-1910)
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Info.Resource, owner and publisher of Arizona LifeScience.com and the upcoming LifeScienceHistory.com, want
to thank all of the front line workers who have supported us during the COVID-19 Pandemic, an historical crisis not
experienced since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19.
