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The story of how pain research evolved at NIDCR. |
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How medical researchers study diseases, by answering three basic questions. Focuses on Dr. Roscoe Brady's team at NINDS and their work with Gaucher disease. |
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NIH physician Dr. Joseph Goldberger's discovery of the cause for pellagra, a disease, resulting from a diet deficient in vitamin B, that killed many poor Southerners in the early part of the 20th century. |
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The quest for new painkillers and a synthetic source for morphine and codeine |
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The story of one of the first supercomputers from its conception in MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, through its use in biomedical research laboratories |
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Howard Bartner, an NIH medical illustrator, devoted 40 years to portraying human anatomy in his drawings. |
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Instruments, designed on a "seesaw" principle, to measure mass precisely by placing a sample in one pan and known weight in an opposing pan until an equilibrium was established. |
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A collection of 24 medical posters drawn by artists at the NIH, representing topics from arthritis to women's health. |
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A cross section of precision instruments from the in-house research program at NIH, used between 1945 and 1965. |