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Blog Buzz: June 19 – June 24
Lately in science, health and librarianship blogs…
- The Curious Cub reports that Darwin’s personal library – including his annotations – is being made available online by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The 330 most “heavily annotated” works are currently available with many more to follow.
- The NCI has rolled out The Cancer Imaging Archive. According to an NCI press release, this collection “contains a large proportion of original, pre-surgical MRIs from cases that have been genomically characterized in TCGA.”
- Of Schemes and Memes, features two great posts on the web and learning in its best of weekly roundup. eResearch discusses The Science of the Web, “the largest human information construct in history” and highlights work from the recent 3rd International Conference on WebScience. While over at Bioscience eLearning, we are reminded to Push, don’t pull your elearners.
- CDC researchers found non-recommended HPV testing practices in a survey of US providers.
- Nature News says vaccine trial ethics violations in India may fuel anti-vaccination fears.
- And just for fun, check out the renderings at Beautiful Proteins.
Resource Highlights: The Cancer Genome Atlas
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is an initiative sponsored by the National Cancer Insitute at the National Institutes of Health to map the genomic changes in over 20 types of cancer.