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[frontal-cortex]

All the Colors of the Brainbow by NICHD Via Flickr: 50um vibratome section from Nkx2.1-Cre;Brainbow mouse, in which each MGE-derived cortical interneuron undergoes stoichastic Cre-mediated recombination events resulting in each cell being labeled with a unique hue. Credit: Tim Petros, NICHD/NIH

[medicircle-blog]

Supplements with Zinc and folic acid is not helping you,NIH,US study #NIH #medicircle #NICHD https://bit.ly/2G5SHCz https://www.instagram.com/p/B7i62hRpe4z/?igshid=1apsmxu0ceknu

[nihmedarts]

Cover illustration for Molecular Cell. Article describes how a riboswitch is a manganese-responsive regulatory element.

Illustration: Ethan Tyler

[historyatnih]

Objects can be powerful storytelling tools. That is why the Stetten Museum pays close attention to documenting objects of importance on the NIH campus.  This prototype of the Photoactivation Localization Microscopy (PALM) system, which allows single molecules to be imaged inside biological systems, was the result of a collaboration between Drs. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and George Patterson of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – who developed the photoactivatable GFP used in PALM – and Drs. Eric Betzig and Harald Hess, who developed PALM. Betzig won the 2014 Nobel Prize for his seminal role.

To learn about the story behind this amazing piece of hardware, check out: https://bit.ly/2OzqBCm

[historyatnih]

Do these look like rabbit ears to you?  The long tubes on this Zeiss microscope provide two separate optical paths with slightly different angles for viewing a specimen, which is interpreted in our brains as stereovision.  Hence the name Stereoscopic Microscope 1.  Sometimes these microscopes are called dissecting microscopes because they allow the user an upright view to manipulate tissue, but they are also used in electronics, mineralogy, entomology, and zoology.  This particular Zeiss SM1, from about 1960, was used by Dr. Audrey Stone, who worked at NIH for 53 years (1959-2012) at two institutes, NIMH and NICHD.  She studied the basic structure of heparin, a naturally occurring anticoagulant which prevents the clotting of blood, as well as how heparin could be used in potential AIDS and malaria vaccines.

[scitechman]

Air Pollution Exposure in Early Pregnancy Linked to Miscarriage, NIH Study Suggests

Exposure to common air pollutants, such as ozone and fine particles, may increase the risk of early pregnancy loss, according to a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health. The study appears in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

Ozone is a highly reactive form of oxygen that is a primary constituent of urban smog. Researchers followed 501 couples attempting to conceive between 2005…

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[historyatnih]

A concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury (TBI).  In January 2017, it was announced that researchers had found that the amount of a protein, called tau, in the brain after a TBI could predict how long a person needed to recuperate from a TBI.  Millions of Americans get concussions every year from accidents and sports like football, soccer, and basketball.  The study was done by the NIH National Institute of Nursing Research and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.  

More on this research http://bit.ly/2kSFOQp  and more on concussions  http://bit.ly/2oRlEur

[historyatnih]

“They’re going to let us take her home?” is the incredulous thought many parents have when the nurses bundle their infants into their car and wave goodbye.  One thing new parents now know is to put babies to sleep on their backs, not their stomachs, to avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The Safe to Sleep campaign was launched by the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in partnership with several other organizations in 1994, and has drastically cut the incidence of SIDS.

Learn more about SIDS http://bit.ly/V1EpsE