November 14 is World Diabetes Day.
World Diabetes Day raises global awareness of diabetes - its escalating rates around the world and how to prevent the illness in most cases.
The Day is celebrated on 14 November to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, was instrumental in the discovery of
insulin in 1922, a life-saving treatment for diabetes patients.
WHO estimates that more than 346 million people worldwide have diabetes. This number is likely to more than double by 2030 without
intervention. Almost 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
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LifeScience Moment: Allan Wilson and Russell Higuchi become the first to clone genes from an extinct species.
On Nov. 15, 1984 Allan Wilson and Russell Higuchi of the University of CA at Berkeley become the first to clone
genes from an extinct species.
They cloned genes from the preserved skin of a quagga, a form of zebra that has been extinct for a hundred years.
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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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West Nile Virus (Photo Credit: Cynthia Goldsmith)
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Science Quote
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
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(1854-1912)
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