Valerie Schneider, PhD, dives deep—whether it’s into the ocean or her work. Ironically, if it weren’t for a fish, this developmental biologist and deep-sea diver might not have rediscovered her love of genetics and landed a career as a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Whether she’s 100 feet below the…
How do I send an email? This wasn’t an easy question in 1972. Fortunately, you could have learned what to do by turning to page 6 of the newsletter we now call the NLM Technical Bulletin. For 50 years, searchers and librarians have been relying on the NLM Technical Bulletin to find out about everything…
We take it for granted today, but 30-plus years ago it wasn’t obvious that the National Center for Biotechnology Information would become a powerhouse of molecular biotechnology information for millions of users every day. NLM in Focus spoke with three scientists who were with NCBI in the beginning—and are still here: Dennis Benson, PhD; David…
The Intramural Research Program (IRP) at NIH is home to some of today’s and tomorrow’s greatest scientific minds. Hundreds of budding biomedical pioneers begin honing their scientific skills here in high school, but very few win distinction as quickly as seventeen-year-old Daniel Schäffer, whose IRP research earned him inclusion among this year’s 40 finalists in…
As the National Library of Medicine seeks to serve as a platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health, NLM in Focus asked seven staff members to tell us how they fit into data science. Their answers are encouraging. Dwight Clarke IT Specialist (Information Security) Very briefly, what do you do at NLM? In my role as…
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