The now-retired Cray X-MP supercomputer, used at NIH in the late 1990s, is on display in Bldg. 31. Meet NIH's current supercomputer: the Biowulf, which is 15 million times faster than the Cray.
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills lost all four limbs during his third deployment in Afghanistan. Now a motivational speaker, he told his inspiring story at a recent DDM seminar.
Depression is the leading cause of disability around the world, explained Dr. Argyris Stringaris, chief of the mood brain and development unit at NIMH, during a recent Clinical Center Grand Rounds lecture.
Dr. Margaret Heitkemper discussed IBS, its relation to other disorders and an intervention that she developed in “Symptom Science in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Bench to Intervention,” the final NINR Director’s Lecture of 2017.
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Mitochondria (red) in a mouse heart muscle and fat droplets (blue) as viewed under an electron microscope. February is American Heart Month.