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Researchers from NLM and the University of Maryland Hall Lab, including Xiaofang Jiang, PhD, a Principal Investigator in the NLM Intramural Research Program (IRP), identified a key enzyme in the human gut microbiome, called bilirubin reductase, and investigated its role in the bilirubin-to-urobilinogen reduction process.
The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program prepares future leaders for director positions at academic health sciences libraries. Fellows gain invaluable experience… and many graduates later pass their knowledge on as program mentors. Learn more about the program and what some of our former fellows have to say!
The African Journal Partnership Program—supported by NLM and the NIH Fogarty International Center—collaborates with African journal editors to promote worldwide dissemination of their journals. See how AJPP improves the visibility and quality of African research for equitable health promotion and disease prevention.
How can cancer help us understand algorithmic bias? At this year’s NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture, journalist and AI ethics expert Meredith Broussard shared how her personal experience with breast cancer can help illuminate the potential impact that racial and gender bias can have on the use of AI in medical contexts.
NLM funds grants related to both Clinical Informatics Research and Clinical Research Informatics—two fields that sound similar but are distinct in the ways they contribute to advancing health care delivery and patient outcomes. NLM’s Dr. Allison Dennis discusses how these concepts relate and how researchers can apply to related funding opportunities.
Better understanding a cell’s identity and function—its “phenotype”—is fundamental to many medical discoveries. Fortunately, new technology has made a deeper understanding of cellular phenotypes more accessible than ever. Learn how NLM experts and others are working to accelerate this field in a new blog from NLM Scientific Director Dr. Richard H. Scheuermann.
NLM is excited to announce the launch of a beta version of a new online tool, the Dataset Catalog. The tool is designed to help improve the discoverability and reuse of research data by making it easier for users to find and connect biomedical datasets. Read more about this new tool, then try it out and share your feedback!
From guiding diagnosis to advancing research, artificial intelligence (AI) has a lot of potential. But this potential currently represents more promise than reality, and the actual use of AI in health care is still modest. We must treat AI the same way as any other tool we use in health care: “Show us the evidence.”
Open Access Week raises awareness of open access, fosters discussions about open scholarship, and encourages new ways to promote knowledge sharing. In honor of Open Access Week, let’s dive into some of the ways that NLM supports open access all year long!
The mission of EP is to provide grants for research projects, resources, and career development in the fields of biomedical informatics and data science. To make this happen, a lot goes on behind the scenes. Here's a sneak peek behind the NOFO curtain...