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Source: NLM In Focus - January 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
New Investigators on the NLM Block!
How NLM’s newest investigators are advancing discovery through exhilarating research NLM is enhancing its Intramural Research Program to better serve scientists, health professionals, and the public.We would like to introduce you to two exciting, new additions to the NLM team: Xiaofang Jiang, PhD, and Lauren Porter, PhD, recently joined NLM as tenure-track investigators. Both play… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - March 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: NLM Departments People Source Type: blogs
NLM ’s Groundbreaking Work to Prevent Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is highly preventable—but only if you live in a place where there’s access to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and routine gynecological screening. Recent advances in vaccines protecting against HPV infection, which is the primary cause of the cancer, and improved cervical screening tests promise a future with a significantly reduced prevalence of… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - February 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
All in Their Heads: When Faces Made the Case for Lobotomy
If you were mentally ill back in the late 1930s to late 1950s, doctors might have tried to cure you by drilling a hole in your brain and disconnecting the thalamus from the frontal lobe. They may have been convinced to employ this drastic surgery by eccentric neuroscientist Dr. Walter Freeman, “the world’s greatest proponent… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: History NLM Departments Source Type: blogs
Actress Jordin Sparks Talks About Sickle Cell Disease in NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
The current issue of NIH MedlinePlus magazine brings you recording artist and Broadway actress Jordin Sparks sharing her family’s experience with sickle cell disease. Sparks opens up about honoring her late stepsister, giving more patients a voice, and reducing stigma. She says, “We need to end the stigma that can come with sickle cell disease.… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Articles People Source Type: blogs
Happy New Year!
As we look back at 2019, we’d like to share a few NLM in Focus stories about some of the National Library of Medicine’s people, services, and products that are making a difference in scientific discovery and public health and educating the public. Winter 2019 As the Broadway hit “Hamilton” prepared to begin a U.S. tour, we… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 2, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Guest Author Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
NLM Holiday Sing-a-Long
It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays and here at NLM, we’re singing a few of our traditional favorites with a twist. We hope you’ll sing along. Happy Holidays! N-L-M to tune of “Jingle Bells” Dashing through the stacks,Retrieving as we go.We scan and cart and prep to bindWhile shouting “Ho, ho, ho!”… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 19, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
scPopCorn Gets to the Kernel of Single-Cell Experiments: NLM –Made Algorithm Helps NIH Researchers
Researchers at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information have created a new algorithm called scPopCorn (single-cell subpopulations comparison) to capture the differences among populations of cells from single-cell experiments. The algorithm, developed by my team is available at GitHub and is described in an article in Cell Systems (Y. Wang, J. Honka, and T.M. Przytycka, Cell… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 6, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
NBA Star Kevin Love Shares Mental Health Struggles in NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
In the current issue of NIH MedlinePlus magazine, NBA star Kevin Love talks about his experiences with anxiety and the importance of removing the stigma surrounding men and mental health. The Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player shares what it was like to experience a panic attack right in the middle of a game. He also offers advice to… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 21, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
NLM Inspires the Next Generation of Scientists and Researchers
Determination, inspiration, curiosity, and the importance of mentors were just a few of the themes of the sixth annual Science Day at NIH. Science Day at NIH is a partnership between NLM, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Friends of the National Library of Medicine,… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 7, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Guest Author Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Women-Led Codeathon. . .A First for NLM
It was an idea whose time had come. NLM is well known and respected for hosting and sponsoring codeathons that bring together researchers and coders from diverse technical backgrounds together to create tools that solve relevant problems for the biomedical community in a collaborative—not competitive—way. But now NLM can also be known for bringing gender… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - October 17, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Checking in on GenBank
When high schoolers in New York City were curious whether the sushi in their local market contained the kind of fish that was advertised, GenBank held the clues. When historians wanted to identify the sequence of the lethal pandemic 1918 influenza virus that killed millions worldwide, they found the answer through GenBank. When physicians were… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - October 3, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Programs & Services Source Type: blogs
Data Science Takes Flight at NLM
One year after kicking off a data science training program, NLM celebrated by hosting a data science open house for staff on August 27. During the half-day event with a flight theme, more than 300 employees collected a data science passport that could be stamped by checking out posters, participating in a trivia game, attending… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - September 19, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Guest Author Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Actor M ädchen Amick Talks Mental Health in NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
The current issue of NIH MedlinePlus magazine brings you Riverdale and Twin Peaks actress Mädchen Amick talking about the stigma of mental health disorders and her son’s bipolar disorder. Amick opens up about her son’s situation, advocates for NIH research, and shares her message of hope. She says, “I want other parents to know that it is scary… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - September 5, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Publications Source Type: blogs
NLM Celebrates Acquisition of Selma and Lois DeBakey Papers
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has acquired the papers of sisters Selma DeBakey (1915-2013) and Lois DeBakey, PhD (1920-2016), pioneers in biomedical communications who used humor as one of their signature teaching techniques. These remarkable women also wrote extensively about the responsibilities of authors, editors, and reviewers and on topics such as literary ethics… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 22, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: History People Source Type: blogs
