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September 27, 2024

  • Collins Shares His Experience with Prostate Cancer

    By Dana Talesnik

    To mark National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins shares his experience participating in an NIH protocol following his prostate cancer diagnosis earlier this year. And his surgeon, NCI's Dr. Peter Pinto, discusses some of the latest tools to detect and treat this disease.
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    Understanding Cognitive Load Theory Makes Teachers More Effective 

    By Eric Bock

    Medical school curriculums require students to learn complex information. To help students retain what they’re taught, faculty and staff can use teaching principles based on cognitive load theory, said Dr. Jennifer Spicer.

  • Interns Gather for Poster Day

    By Kristine Duru and Mahelate Solomon

    Hundreds of lab interns from across NIH convened in August to display their research at Summer Poster Day. Three of those interns discuss their research.
  • A smiling Keegan, wearing a patterned black-and-white shirt, seated in an office.

    Keegan Shares Tips for Combating Anxiety

    By Amber Snyder

    How do you manage work-related anxiety? Jeanne Keegan of NIH's Office of Research Services offers some advice from personal experience.
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On the Cover

Molecular view of DHHC palmitoyltransferases. Human DHHC20 (yellow) is embedded in the Golgi membrane (green), a compartment located inside cells. DHHC20 attaches a fatty acid chain (white) to a target protein (blue, foreground), which anchors the protein to the Golgi membrane. NIH researchers have reported the first 3D structure of DHHC enzymes. The finding promises to improve drug design for common forms of cancer.

Jeremy Swan/NICHD

The NIH Record

The NIH Record, founded in 1949, is the biweekly newsletter for employees of the National Institutes of Health.

Published 25 times each year, it comes out on payday Fridays.

Editor: Dana Talesnik
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Associate Editor: Patrick Smith
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Assistant Editor: Eric Bock
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Staff Writer: Amber Snyder
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