NLM Announcements

Sequence Viewer 3.22 now available

08/03/2017 12:25 PM EDT

Sequence Viewer 3.22 has several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including improved rendering on BAM and cSRA tracks. For a full list of changes, see the Sequence Viewer release notes. Sequence Viewer is a graphical view of sequences and … Continue reading →

What does a glioblastoma look like?

08/03/2017 12:20 PM EDT

Guest post by James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD, chief editor for MedPix®. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain was recently diagnosed with the most aggressive form of brain cancer: glioblastoma.  This is the same type of tumor that killed Vice President Joe Biden’s son Beau and Senator Ted Kennedy. Glioblastoma originates in the brain. … Continue reading "What does a glioblastoma look like?"

From Doodling to a Career: Focus on Donald Bliss

08/03/2017 11:30 AM EDT

When Donald Bliss was growing up, he was constantly drawing and doodling. “In high school, my biology teacher, Clark Harris, gave me bonus points for my illustrations in my lab reports,” said Bliss, the videographics lead in NLM’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications’ Audiovisual Program Development Branch. “And sometimes, I’d even go from…