The Journal of the American Medical Association released a special issue on genomic medicine today. The issue provides some useful perspectives and content in this field of increasing importance. JAMA – April 10, 2013, Vol 309, No. 14 Other related resources of interest: Genetic Alliance: http://www.geneticalliance.org/ Genetics Home Reference: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ National Coalition for Health Professional [...]
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JAMA Special Issue on Genomics in Medicine
April 10th, 2013 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:2013, genomics, Information, NHGRI, NIH, translational, Uncategorized, Washington University
Impact of NIH Research
June 14th, 2012 by Kristi · No Comments
The National Institutes of Health has a new resource to help people understand the impact of NIH-funded initiatives in areas such as health, the economy, our communities, and important advances in knowledge that can push research and discovery forward for years to come. The site also includes news items and a toolbox with online tools, [...]
Rare Disease Day
February 29th, 2012 by Kristi · No Comments
Today is Rare Disease Day – an opportunity to improve awareness of rare diseases and improve support of research and support efforts for patients and their families. From NIH News: Rare Disease Day was established to raise public awareness about rare diseases, the challenges encountered by those affected, and the importance of research to develop [...]
NIH launches online genetics course
January 3rd, 2012 by Kristi · No Comments
The new online course presents a nice foundation of information and is targeted to social and behavioral scientists who wish to engage in transdisciplinary collaborations with a genetic component — although the content would be applicable for any number of people who work in complementary areas. The course, Genetics and Social Science: Expanding Transdisciplinary Research, [...]
Tags:academia, collaboration, education, genetic, Information, NIH, translational
NIH Office of Extramural Research asks for feedback…
October 20th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
In light of tight budgets and increasing fiscal uncertainty, Dr. Sally Rockey, NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural Research, asks: How Do You Think We Should Manage Science in Fiscally Challenging Times? Dr. Rockey invites readers to take a look at some possible options and supporting data in a set of slides posted on the OER [...]
NCBI C++ Toolkit v7.0.0 available
June 28th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
From NCBI: The NCBI C++ Toolkit v7.0.0 is now available from the FTP site. The Toolkit contains C++ language sources of NCBI software that can be used to build standalone BLAST, Sequin, Cn3D, and other NCBI tools and utilities. Also check out the The NCBI C++ Toolkit Book, Edited by Denis Vakatov, on the NCBI [...]
Tags:2011, bioinformatics, BLAST, genomics, informatics, Information, NCBI, NIH, research, software
NIH website gets new look
April 7th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
Wow – take a look at the new look and feel of the NIH website. Topic areas and resources are easy to find and the layout is dynamite! http://www.nih.gov/
Happy Anniversary, National Library of Medicine!
March 14th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the National Library of Medicine. NLM is an important part of our day – whatever would we do without PubMed and NCBI? Of course NLM offers many other services and resources in addition to PubMed and NCBI. Visit NLM at http://www.nlm.nih.gov to learn more. For details on NLM’s [...]
RePORTER Updates
July 2nd, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
The most recent release of RePORTER offers some wonderful features in the areas of general updates, query, search results, and exporting data to Excel. You might also find some of the other RePORTER features such as the FAQ, RePORT Tutorial, Glossary, and Links.
PubMed updates
January 26th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
There are some great updates planned for PubMed in February: A link to an updated and enhanced Limits page will be available on all pages The homepage will include a link to the clipboard The Advanced search page will be updated Read more in the NLM Technical Bulletin
