- Industry: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
A distinct gene alteration that has been newly discovered; not the same as a 'new' or 'de novo' mutation.
Industry:Health care
A distinctive usually recurrent molecular sequence (as of amino acids or base pairs) or structural elements (as of secondary protein structures) such as a simple protein motif consisting of two alpha helices.
Industry:Health care
A dividing wall or membrane especially between bodily spaces or masses of soft tissue.
Industry:Health care
A dividing wall or membrane especially between bodily spaces or masses of soft tissue.
Industry:Health care
A DNA sequence necessary and sufficient for initiation of DNA replication.
Industry:Health care
A domain in a protein that is encoded for by a homeobox, that consists of about 60 amino acid residues which are usually similar from one such domain to another, and that recognizes and binds to specific DNA sequences in genes regulated by the homeotic gene.
Industry:Health care
A drug that lowers high levels of uric acid (a byproduct of metabolism) in the blood caused by some cancer treatments.
Industry:Health care
A fluid made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Bile is excreted into the small intestine, where it helps digest fat.
Industry:Health care
