Blog Buzz: April 16 – April 22

Some nuggets from this week in blogland

The NY Times reports researchers have found “three distinct ecosystems” or enterotypes in human gut bacteria, a potentially groundbreaking discovery for medicine.
Tree of Life touches on a Times editorial about hospital acquired infections, suggesting funds for study be devoted to the “microbial ecology of hospitals”.
John Dupuis of Confessions of a Science Librarian links this week to a review of search tools called Pubmed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature.
Dupuis also links to this discussion of social media use (or the lack thereof) by scientists, and Krafty Librarian weighs in as well.

MSKCC in the News: April 9 – April 20

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Mark

In a recent New York Times Magazine article entitled “Is Sugar Toxic,” MSKCC president Craig Thompson suggests a link between high sugar consumption and the development of insulin dependent cancer cells resulting in tumor growth.
The New York Daily News reported on a new MSKCC clinical trial to save the fertility of young boys undergoing cancer treatment.
Pharmabiz posted an announcement about the research collaboration between MSKCC and Molecular Templates to develop Engineered Toxin Bodies (ETB) for lymphomas.

Currently in the blogosphere:

For the first time, US taxpayers can “understand how and where your tax dollars are being spent” with the White House’s Federal Taxpayer Receipt.
NCI’s Cancer Statistics Review was updated this morning with data through 2008 for 27 cancers. NCI’s Benchmarks blog for reporters features a helpful guide to finding information in the report.
Also from NCI, researchers have completed the whole exome sequencing of melanoma in a new study appearing early online in Nature Genetics today.
GenomeWeb discusses some DNA Day celebrations on the web and beyond.
Lots of people around the web are talking about tomorrow’s National Healthcare Decisions Day which encourages individuals to “Have the Talk” about their wishes with loved ones. Here is one editorial.
ScienceRoll has a great piece called Crowdsourcing in Medicine Via Twitter. Follow him at @Berci and us at @MSKCC_Library.
UCLA recently announced the creation of the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety “…to support research in this emerging field and facilitate the translation of results into best practices”. A five-minute video accompanies the article.