Adelaide, Australia…Australian cancer researchers have made an important new connection between a person’s cancer risk and the functions of circular RNAs, a recently discovered family of genetic fragments present within our cells. A new Flinders University-led study published in Cancer Cell, one of the world’s top cancer journals, finds that specific circular RNAs within many of us can […]
Dublin, Ireland…George Bernard Shaw 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950. “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig […]
Hyannis Port, MA…Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995 “Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. ‘Is it envy,’ you ask? I don’t know… I’ve had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who’s an ambassador… perhaps God doesn’t permit that […]
Sacramento, CA…California State Parks will receive $24.8 million for state-established outdoor recreation priority projects from the Federal Fiscal Year 2023 Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This allocation was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. “California State Parks is thrilled to be receiving a portion of this federal funding as public demand […]
Philadelphia, PA…Poor Richard’s Almanack was published by Benjamin Franklin, under the pen name of “Poor Richard” or “Richard Saunders”. Franklin began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack on December 19, 1732. Annual versions were published from 1733 to 1758 & outsold everything but the bible. For two generations before the Revolutionary war he helped create our unique […]
Southampton, Hampshire, England…Isaac Watts 17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748 “Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.” “‘Tis the voice of […]
Sacramento, CA…More shade is coming to California schools. Governor Gavin Newsom today announced CAL FIRE is providing $47 million in grants to help schools convert asphalt to green spaces and plant trees and other vegetation – adding cooler spaces essential to protecting kids from dangerous extreme heat. California’s kids are often disproportionately impacted by extreme […]
Washington, DC…Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Opill (norgestrel) tablet for nonprescription use to prevent pregnancy— the first daily oral contraceptive approved for use in the U.S. without a prescription. Approval of this progestin-only oral contraceptive pill provides an option for consumers to purchase oral contraceptive medicine without a prescription at drug stores, […]
Washington, DC…The U.S. Food and Drug Administration converted Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb), indicated to treat adult patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, to traditional approval following a determination that a confirmatory trial verified clinical benefit. Leqembi is the first amyloid beta-directed antibody to be converted from an accelerated approval to a traditional approval for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The […]
New York, NY…Nikola Tesla 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943 “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, […]
