A study published in the online journal Biology Direct on Oct. 26 by researchers from the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and NIH’s Fogarty International Center, questions the common view that the influenza virus evolves rapidly in a “selection-driven” process. Instead, say the study authors (Yuri Wolf, PhD, NCBI; Cecile Viboud,…
Researchers, clinicians and the public will have a much easier time navigating bioethics information courtesy of the December introduction of the National Library of Medicine Bioethics Information Resources site. Because the literature of bioethics covers multiple disciplines — medicine, sociology, genetics, technology, public policy, law and religion, to name a few — the new site offers…
Physicians can now steer patients to up-to-date, consumer-friendly information relating to those topics on the Genetics Home Reference, courtesy of NLM’s Health Information Rx program on newborn screening and related genetic disorders. The site includes a richly illustrated tutorial on the basics of genetics and specific information on more than 500 genetics topics. Says NLM…
A richly illustrated, 190-page catalog for the National Library of Medicine exhibition, Dream Anatomy, became available in December and may be purchased online for $30 from the Government Printing Office. Written by Michael Sappol, PhD, curator of the exhibition, it includes a foreword from NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, and a preface from History of Medicine…
Andrew Z. Fire, PhD, of Stanford University Medical School and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of National of Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006. He shared the prize with Craig C. Mello, University of Massachusetts Medical School,…
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