May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month

This month is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the importance of prevention, early detection and treatment of
skin cancer, including basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma, the most common
form of cancer in the U.S.
According to estimates made from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
End Results (SEER) Program, 97,610 Americans will be diagnosed with melanoma and about 7,990 people will die of the
disease in 2023.
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LifeScience Moment: The Tomato genome was published in Nature
On May 31, 2012, The tomato genome was published in Nature,
culminating years of work by the Tomato Genome Consortium, a multi-national team
of scientists from 14 countries.
The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project was begun in 2004 by an
international consortium including participants from Korea, China, the UK,
India, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy and the U.S.
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It's a Small World
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Dust Pathogens
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Science Quote
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life."
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Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor,
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(121-180 AD)
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