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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Science Quote
"Philosophy is the science which considers truth."
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Aristotle, Greek philosopher
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(384-322 BC)
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