Resource Highlights: Tools to Access Full Text Journal Articles

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Some may call what I’m about to show you magic, while others might offer a rational explanation for how it works. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. Before reading this post any further, follow these instructions if you are interested in chemistry journal titles:

  1. Go to Chemistry Reference Resolver
  2. Paste the following into the text box: Biochemistry. 2013;52(22):3841-51
  3. Click on Resolve

Viola! You should be brought to the following webpage containing the reference and full text (if available):

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MSKCC in the News: August 8 – August 21

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  • MSKCC’s Jun-ichi Nitadori and colleagues published the results of a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that showed that the new International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), American Thoracic Society (ATS), and European Respiratory Society (ERS) lung adenocarcinoma classification can be used to predict recurrence after limited resection.
  • MSKCC researchers have evolved hyperswarming pathogenic bacteria adorned with multiple whipping flagella — all the way down to the molecular level — and plan to unleash them in a laboratory. The findings have been published in Cell Reports.
  • TVR Communications announced that MSKCC will deploy pCare interactive patient systems.

Blog Buzz: July 8 – August 15

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Can you guess the theme of this mid-summer Blog Buzz?

  • Last month, Myriad sued companies that had released competing BRCA tests in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the patenting of human genes. Timothy B. Lee of Wonk Blog discussed the two universities that also signed on to these lawsuits because of their financial interests in patents and licensing with Myriad (and scolds them). Now one of the companies, Ambry Genetics, is countersuing Myriad for acting in bad faith to maintain a monopoly. A clear explanation and links to the case are on The Pathology Blawg.
  • Apple lost the e-book price fixing case and the Department of Justice later proposed guidelines on how to enforce the ruling. Publishers have since filed a brief arguing against the DOJ’s suggestions, and David Pogue wrote that the end of the color Nook means trouble on the e-book horizon.
  • Have you seen this fascinating Nature News item “Archaeology and the Milk Revolution”? A genetic mutation allowed some people to digest milk and just a few thousand years later, roughly one third of all people can digest milk. WOW!
  • Check out this ScienceDaily item on a study of librarians’ attitudes toward search engines and how it changed over time along with their professional identity.