Can Studying Viruses Help Us Understand the Evolution of Life?

From Our Researchers: Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, and evolutionary genomics

One fascinating question my group asked was, might it be possible to peer into the distant past and figure out what viruses were infecting our distant ancestors? Our conclusions were rather remarkable.

Informing Success from the Outside In: Introducing the NLM Board of Regents CGR Working Group

Guest post by Valerie Schneider, PhD, staff scientist at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Kristi Holmes, PhD, Director of Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center and Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Last year, we described … Continue reading Informing Success from the Outside In: Introducing the NLM Board of Regents CGR Working Group