June 14 is World Blood Donor Day.
World Blood Donor Day, celebrated on 14 June every year, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank
voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.
With the slogan "Give the gift of life: donate blood", this year’s campaign, the 10th anniversary of World Blood Donor Day, will focus on the
value of donated blood to the patient, not only in saving life, but also in helping people live longer and more productive lives.
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LifeScience Moment: U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Diamond v. Chakrabarty.
On June 16, 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld five-to-four the patentability of
genetically altered organisms, opening the door to greater patent protection for
any modified life forms. Chief Justice Warren Burger delivered the opinion of
the Court, in which justices Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist,
and John Paul Stevens joined. William Brennan filed the dissenting opinion,
in which Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, and Lewis Powell joined.
The Diamond v. Chakrabarty case was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court
regarding the patentability of genetically altered microorganisms on March 17, 1980.
In 1972, Chakrabarty filed a patent application assigned to the General Electric Co.
for a human-made genetically engineered bacterium capable of breaking down multiple
components of crude oil. The application asserted 36 claims related to Chakrabarty's
invention of a bacterium from the genus Pseudomonas containing at least two stable
energy-generating plasmids, each of said plasmids providing a separate hydrocarbon
degradative pathway.
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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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Marburg Virus (Photo Credit: Frederick Murphy)
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Science Quote
"No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating."
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Walther Nernst German physicist, chemist. Nobel prize, 1920
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(1864-1941)
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