NLM Announcements

The National Library of Medicine is open and available for tours

01/03/2019 02:30 PM EST

Although some federal government agencies are closed in the absence of either an FY2019 appropriation or a continuing resolution, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is open and tours are available Monday through Friday at 1:30 pm and upon request. Thousands of visitors from every state and all over the world tour NLM every year.…

Virus Hunting Data Science Hackathon next week in San Diego

01/03/2019 12:51 PM EST

From January 9th – 11th, the NCBI will help run a bioinformatics hackathon in Southern California hosted by the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University. We reached out to the global computational biology and virology community as … Continue reading →

Closing the Book on “Shadows from the Walls of Death”

01/03/2019 11:00 AM EST

This collection of arsenic-laden wallpaper samples required special housing. NLM conservators encapsulated the pages in polyester film, welded shut with support from Smithsonian Libraries…

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NLM Launches a New Banner Exhibition

01/03/2019 08:24 AM EST

Special Display and Online Exhibition Open January 11