Pacific white shrimp show up on plates all over the world. They’re valued by diners and cooks for their tender texture and mild flavor. They’re harvested from both the ocean and aquaculture. From Aphids to Whales—the Sequencing Continues The NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline is constantly releasing new annotations in RefSeq. Here are some recent…

  NIH has made the opioid epidemic a priority, launching a multi-institute effort to find scientific solutions to the crisis. NLM is doing its part by getting the word out about the life-saving medication naloxone. Recently, MedlinePlus partnered with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to produce an animation about the treatment. Naloxone might…

It’s never dull in the RefSeq world. Whenever we check in to see what’s new in NCBI’s Reference Sequence Database (RefSeq), we’re always surprised. In releasing genome annotations, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) makes it possible for researchers and scientists all over the world to download more genetic information than ever before about…

We’re celebrating a decade and a half of bringing quality, understandable information about human genetics to patients, their families, and the public. The Genetics Home Reference website was first launched on April 25, 2003, at NLM’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. The creation of Genetics Home Reference coincided with the completion of the Human…

We at NLM in Focus do our best to inform you about the people, products, and programs of the world’s largest medical library. However, there are always more questions to answer and realms to explore. We are pleased to present this new, occasional feature, in which we answer questions we think might be on your…