Let us explain. You don’t have to have grown up in the ’70s to have danced disco and eaten bacon regularly, but to have developed DrugDisco or created MR BACOn, you must have participated in an NCBI hackathon. DrugDisco is a high throughput automated drug discovery pipeline and MR BACOn is otherwise known as a Mendelian Randomization…
We asked some staff here at the National Library of Medicine what was on their summer reading list, and we were thrilled by the diversity of answers. Every list is different. No two readers even had the same author on their lists. Predictably, many of the titles cover science and medicine. One staffer even recommended…
The official tag line for this year’s Medical Library Association conference was “Adapting, Transforming, Leading,” but the real organizing theme appeared to be equity and diversity. From Elaine Martin’s Janet Doe Lecture on “Social Justice and the Medical Librarian” to former US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher’s closing plenary on health disparities to the option…
It was STEM on a grand scale as NLM took part in activities at the NIH pavilion of the Health & Medicine section at the fifth USA Science & Engineering Festival (USASEF) this spring. Families filled the NIH pavilion, where they could engage in more than 30 hands-on activities focusing on health, biomedical, and behavioral…
Have you Googled today? Today, June 7, Google Doodle celebrates Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) on what would be her 109th birthday, and we’re thrilled! Dr. Apgar was a pioneering physician in the field of maternal health. She developed a test that babies all over the world are given at birth to quickly determine their health…
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