If you’re interested in clinical trials for AIDS-related cancers, you’ll want to look at the work of the AIDS Malignancy Clinical Trials Consortium (AMC). AMC areas of research include Kaposi’s sarcoma, lymphoma, and HPV- related cancers. They also conduct research in the area of non-AIDS defining cancers (lung, head and neck, and liver), which now surpass HIV-associated cancers in long-term survivors of HIV. Continue reading
Ninth Place: Highly Cited MSK Publication from 2010
Based on a SCOPUS search conducted in late January 2011, looking for the top 15 highly cited MSK Publications, the following two references were each cited 37 times and are ranked in ninth place. View the journal or search for the specific reference at the journal’s home page by clicking on the journal title below. For additional information about cited reference searching, contact Reference Services.
- Gill JR, Sheng Z-M, Ely SF, Guinee Jr DG, Beasley MB, Suh J, Deshpande C, Mollura DJ, Morens DM, Bray M, Travis WD, Taubenberger JK. Pulmonary pathologic findings of fatal 2009 Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 viral infections. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 2010;134(2):235-243.
- Zheng Y, Josefowicz S, Chaudhry A, Peng XP, Forbush K, Rudensky AY. Role of conserved non-coding DNA elements in the Foxp3 gene in regulatory T-cell fate. Nature. 2010;463(7282):808-812.
Blog Buzz: February 5 – February 11
A roundup of this week’s blog posts of interest in medical librarianship, bioinformatics, oncology and life sciences research.
- Stumbled across a rad blog called Nursing Research: Show me the evidence! from the nursing research staff at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange, CA.
- A welcome addition to the blogosphere: Scimago Labs now has a blog! Topics will include “important issues relating to research evaluation, quantitative analysis of scientific information, scientometrics news and so on.” Looking forward to more posts on bibliometrics and scientometrics from the experts at Scimago.
- Big Data is becoming a Big Problem: a special issue of Science and an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discuss problems and solutions regarding the preservation and sharing of scientific data sets in a range of disciplines.
- Cameron Neylon summed up some interesting experimental uses of Twitter as a laboratory recording system.