Please join us at the Biomedical Library for a Researcher Identifier Workshop. Are you curious about tools that help you track or demonstrate your research impact and scholarly output? If yes, attend this workshop, in […]
NCBI tools and databases workshop: February 5, 2019 at noon
If you are interested in learning about the types of resources which NCBI (home to Pubmed) offers in bioinformatics, then come to our introductory one-hour NCBI tools and databases workshop that is being held […]
3d print of the week: model of the alpha synuclein protein
This week’s featured print is a model of alpha synuclein which is a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease. This print demonstrates both the geometry and texture of the receptor so that the […]
Librarians as participants on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Carlos Rodriguez, a librarian at the Biomedical Library, has served as a highly valued Penn IRB member for several years. Under FDA regulations, an IRB is an independent committee that is responsible for reviewing all human […]
3d print of the week: Detail from the Santi Luca e Martina cathedral
This week’s featured print is for a Penn Design seminar that looks at important Italian Baroque cathedrals with the aid of laser scans, 3D prints, and drawings. This is a piece of […]
3D print of the week: Homo naledi foot for “Introduction to Human Evolution” course
This week’s featured print is a foot of the hominin, Homo naledi. Like the Homo naledi skull featured a few weeks back in our Biomeditations blog post about artifacts, this foot will be used […]
Meet Richard: Nursing Librarian at work in the Penn Hospitals
As discussed in previous Biomeditations posts about my colleagues Sherry Morgan and Maylene Qiu, the staff of the Biomedical Library not only work with Penn students and faculty, but also partner with […]
