February 7-14: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Congenital Heart Disease is considered to be the most common birth defect, and is a leading cause of
birth-defect related deaths worldwide.
CHD Awareness Week is an annual awareness effort to help educate the public about Congenital Heart
Defects. Participants include individuals, local support groups, national and local organizations and
congenital cardiology centers throughout the world.
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LifeScience Moment: Senator Matthew Neely proposed legislation offering a $5 million reward for a cancer cure discovery.
On Febrary 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI)I was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)
of West Virginia proposed a bill that would offer a $5 million reward for the discovery of a cure for cancer.
Senator Neely's "reward" bill did not pass, but it was among the first in a series of proposed legislation
that laid the groundwork for the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Avian Influenza A H5N1
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Science Quote
"There is going to be a change in the 21st century in how people do things and how they think. Biotechnology is going to change the world."
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Leroy Hood, American biologist,
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The Genelex biotechnology laboratory space is located at at 3000 First Avenue in Seattle’s
Belltown neighborhood with Puget Sound views, and blocks from the waterfront, Sculpture Park
and many lunch spots. The building is available March 1, 2012.
