News from the National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health

Posted by ssawyer on November 11th, 2020 Posted in: #CC/Academic List, #Health Interest List, #Health Sciences List, #Public/K-12 List, All Members

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“Fostering a Culture of Scientific Data Stewardship”, from the NLM Director’s blog

UMLS 2020AB Release Available

GenBank 240.0 is available and surpasses 10 trillion basepairs!

*“Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots”, from the NIH Director’s blog

New report on indicators of well-being among older Americans

NIH Researchers Discover a New Inflammatory Disease Called VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic)

*COVID-19 Test Us program—an indispensable partner in diagnostics, validation, and deployment

November is National Diabetes Month, this year’s focus is on taking care of youth who have diabetes

The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with an Envisioning Health Equity Art Challenge 2020, deadline is Feb. 5, 2021