March is National Nutrition Month.

March is National Nutrition Month® -- a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.

NNM also promotes the Academy and its members to the public and the media as the most valuable and credible source of timely, scientifically based food and nutrition information.

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LifeScience Moment: The U.S. Senate authorized the National Academy of Sciences to investigate methods of Federal aid in discovering a cure for cancer.

On March 7, 1928, Senator Matthew Neely (D) of West Virginia introduced S. 3554, "To authorize the National Academy of Sciences to investigate the means and methods for affording Federal aid in discovering a cure for cancer and for other purposes.

On Febrary 4, 1927, Senator Neely 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.

In 1937, Senator's Matthew Neely and Homer Bone, with representative Warren Magnuson, introduced the National Cancer Institute Act, which was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt on August 5 of that year.

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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
	Dust Pathogens

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Science Quote

"I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed."

-	Max Born, German Physicist, (Nobel Laureate, 1954)
(1882-1970)