New Discoveries, Eating Healthy and the Tale of a Gadget

Posted on by

Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

  • New brain cancer mutation identified by scientists at Duke in collaboration with researchers in China. More on the discovery of the PPM1D mutation can be found in the journal Nature Genetics.
  • Researchers at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care have published the findings of their case control study where they delineate the association between TMEM (tumor microenvironment of metastasis) score and risk of distant metastasis. Results are published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Continue reading →

HathiTrust For The Win, Help Scientists Track Fireflies, and Beginning Life with a Known Genome…

Posted on by

Some items that caught my attention on the internet this week;

  • In the latest round of the HathiTrust court saga, an appeals court has mainly upheld an earlier decision and said, in the words of Jennifer Howard from Wired Campus,  “that HathiTrust’s creation of a searchable, full-text database of those works counts as fair use. So does making texts available in different formats for the vision-impaired and other users with disabilities that make it hard to use print”. Other coverage of this case (including lots of links) can be found at Info Docket, and a clearly written legal explanation of why this is a win for libraries comes from Kevin Smith of Scholarly Communications @ Duke.
  • Summer is almost here and soon I’ll see my first lightening bug of the season. If you’re like me and delight in them every year, EurekaLab shared a cool citizen science project that might be just your thing. Researchers at Clemson University have developed an app (for iPhone and Android) and instructions (for kids and adults) to help them track and count the firefly population. Why not get the whole family involved in this summer science project? Continue reading →

NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities (G08)

Posted on by

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is soliciting grant applications for projects that will bring useful, usable health information to health disparity populations and their health care providers.

“Health disparities” refer to population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, and access to health care. Populations affected by disparities include racial and ethnic minorities, residents of rural areas, women/children/the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Continue reading →