Reference websites

[Monique]

Take a look at this website, it has some really neat Clips, Stills, and Slides of small life forms:

http://www.cytographics.com/


Especially nice is the video of Xenopus (toad) eggs. The video illustrate, how perfectly times embyonic development is, since three three eggs were fertilized at the same time and develop at the same speed.

It is cool, since it is a time lapse videa which shows the process from first cell division all the way of the hatching of the tadpole. Too bad the resolution is not so nice, I've got in on a CDROM which is 100x better.

http://www.cytographics.com/gallery/clips/cg_16.gif

[Beren]

Oh, how wonderful!

I especially liked the "Early Phases of Mitosis", and it's even in quicktime format (which I much prefer).

Very nice sites.

[Monique]

Please feel free top post any website which are great resources or have nice animations!

[Monique]

http://www.becominghuman.org

Which is a documentary made by Donald C. Johanson, an Paleoanthropologist. It is really extensive and lenghthy: nicely made :) Definetely worth listening to.

[Ivan Seeking]

A few unusual pics from Sandia Labs

http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp

[Monique]

Cool! Those are some crazy pictures!

[resa3535]

I really enjoyed this site... I thought the Noctiluca Scintillans was kinda cutesy, with its ability to catch prey with its flagella... I don't know when I see things like this I want to reconsider being a biology major...

[Another God]

I just think this is a good website for some basic tutorials (with animations included)

UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorials (http://www.lsic.ucla.edu/ls3/tutorials/)

[Monique]

That is a really nice tutorial AG, if you know more of these I'd like to know that :)!

[Another God]

I just found two cool websites:

Animated Tutorials (http://www.sumanasinc.com/index.html)
This site is actually of the company which is contracted to make the tutorials, but it seems you can access all of the tutorials that they make. They have many biology ones as well as physics, astronomy etc.

Stem Cell Information (http://stemcells.nih.gov/)
This is the NIH's Stem Cell information website. If you have ever wanted to know anything about stem cells, i think this is a good place to start.

[Another God]

A book on consciousness and the brain....? (http://www.thymos.com/tat/title.html)
I dunno if this will help, but it has a chapter listing, and one of them might be related to what you want. Often if you can just find one site which is related to what you want, check out the links from that site, and you 'surf'[b(] your way to the site you want.

[Ontoplankton]

William Calvin has ~10 books (on neuroscience and evolution) online at http://www.williamcalvin.com/index.html#books (Don't be scared away by the horrible web design, though.)

[Monique]

Lectures lectures lectures :biggrin:

National Institutes of Health (NIH) videocasting
http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp

[Phobos]

New evolution 101 site. Should be good - - it's by the National Center for Science Education (heavily engaged in the creation-evolution debate).

http://evolution.berkeley.edu

The Understanding Evolution web site -- written for teachers but accessible to the general public -- is intended to provide "one-stop shopping" for evolution education. The web site is rich in content, with sections on the nature of science, evolution itself, the different lines of evidence supporting evidence, evolution's relevance to everyday life, widespread misconceptions about evolution, and the history of evolutionary thought. There is also an extensive section especially for teachers, giving advice on teaching evolution, ideas for lesson plans, ways to avoid confusing students, and answering common student questions.

And of course, there is the always famous...
http://www.talkorigins.org/

[loseyourname]

For all of you consciousness scientists out there, these are some decent starting points:

Science and Consciousness Review (http://www.sci-con.org)

Koch Laboratory Home Page (http://www.klab.caltech.edu/index.shtml)

[null]

I'm looking for a site with immunology animations that would be appropriate for students that are either non biology majors or have a very basic understanding of biology. I've looked at a few sites you guys have listed (some very cool sites) but haven't found one that gives a good general overview of the immune response cascade. If you know of good site please let me know!
Thanks

[loseyourname]

The Center for Evolutionary Psychology:

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/index.html

[ryokan]

I suggest to view the following links:
http://www.nature.com/nature/ancestor/index.html
(a "focus" of Nature)
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ on Fossil Hominids
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html (more on hominids)
http://leakeyfoundation.org/ (The Leakey Foundation)
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/ (Neanderthals)

[ryokan]

On Protein crystallography
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/11/5/8

Some Books on line
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=mcb.TOC&depth=10

[ryokan]

The Special Issue of Science on Human Genomics
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol291/issue5507/index.shtml#specialintro

and the Nature Genomics Gateway
http://www.nature.com/genomics/

More of Science (In this case on Epigenetics)
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/resources/res_epigenetics.shtml

On Medical Genetics:
http://www.yourgenesyourhealth.org/

Very important in Medical Genetics:The Online Mendelian Inheritance in MAN
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM&cmd=Limits

National Human Genome Research Institute
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/

The mouse genome (in Nature)
http://www.nature.com/nature/mousegenome/index.html

DNA from the beginning. Intesresting as divulgative
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

[Monique]

Thank you Ryokan :smile:

[ryokan]

The best web that I know on microscopy: Molecular expressions:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html

Zeiss: http://www.zeiss.de/C12567BE0045ACF1?Open

Micscape Magazine:
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html

Nobel e-Museum: http://www.nobel.se/physics/educational/microscopes/1.html

Images and images... http://www.denniskunkel.com/

Microscopy suite. http://www.denniskunkel.com/

And embryo images: http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/

[TheSkyKing]

http://www.microscopyu.com/galleries/confocal/trichomes.html

Enjoy

[Astronuc]

Nature Publishing Group has announced that in June 2005 we will be launching Nature Chemical Biology, a new international forum for the timely publication of research at the interface between chemistry and biology.

http://www.nature.com/nchembio/index.html

Subscribers to Nature.com will get access to other goodies.

[sontag]

This is a highly informative and interesting Biology website by Dr John Kimball:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/

[dwilkerson]

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 4000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Pictures of literally everything!

If your into phylogeny,systematics, this is the one! -david

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

[Moonbear]

Here are some sites I've mentioned in posts ages ago, but never put in this thread. Since we get questions on these processes every so often, I'll add them now.

Animation of glycolysis:
http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/glycolysismov.html

Citric acid cycle animation:
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/tca/tca.htm

Oxidative phosphorylation:
http://www.brookscole.com/chemistry_d/templates/student_resources/shared_resources/animations/oxidative/oxidativephosphorylation.html

[Monique]

Amazing to see: the development of the C. elegans worm (a model organism) from a single cell to a 558-celled worm in about 14 hours. Watch how the single cell gets divided into many units and how a structured worm is formed (with a functioning feeding apparatus, gut, nervous system and muscles) http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/celdev.mov

More C. elegans movies: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html

[Arctangent]

http://www.botany.org/plantimages/

This is a collection of some beautifully photographed plants, and has some good examples for studying as well.

http://www.cactus-art.biz/gallery/Photo_gallery_index.htm

And a whole bunch of cactii pictures. The huge variety and colour that you find in cactii is amazing.

[zthavan]

tnx for the website, really good

[Astronuc]

For those looking for subjects in Biochemistry -

http://www.biochemweb.org/

[Another God]

Evolution 101 (http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_01)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_01

A great animated interactive guide to Evolution.

Shane

[Another God]

http://www.johnkyrk.com/
Cell Biology Animation

[Lamideel]

Found this on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFsMY156fc

Pretty funny!:rofl:

I'm new, so if this isn't the right place to post this, please move or delete. Thought it was worth sharing for those in to DNA

[jason07]

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[Astronuc]

The Biology Project Home
Department of Biology, University of Arizona
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/DEFAULT.HTML

>Biochemistry
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/biochemistry.html

[RetardedBastard]

This is the best video I've seen on the subject of DNA replication and transcription.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NHcQesYl8

I think this video is helpful in introducing us to what is happening at the distance-scale of mRNA and transcription factors, and so on. The second part of the video with 3D computer animation shows the machinery that replicates DNA, and is also quite fascinating (move over quantum mechanics!).

What do ya'll think about it?

[Moonbear]

That is a very good animation, and should be quite beneficial for students to better understand the process...especially those who are visual learners. My only critique of it is I wish they had cleaned up some of the background noise on their microphone; it's a bit distracting if one were to use it for classroom teaching, but given the rest of the quality of the animations, that's a minor issue.

[Vectus]

Origins, the Series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg&feature=PlayList&p=0696457CAFD6D7C9&index=0&playnext=1)

A Youtube documentary series by the user cdk007 explaining everything from abiogenesis to the rise of intelligence. He also has many other videos insightful and educational videos on a variety of topics that I would highly recommend. ( http://www.youtube.com/user/cdk007 )



How Evolution REALLY Works (the game) (http://www.kevinpluck.net/evolution-versus-intelligence/)

An interactive flash game that shows very simply how evolution works with the tiniest bit of selection, given the imperfect nature of reproduction and/or the shuffling of genes with sexual reproduction.

[seouldavid]

This contains many links to audio/video courses and lectures in biology and biological engineering, including biochemistry, genetics, general biology, human anatomy, microbiology, molecular biology, neurobiology, and cell biology.

http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/biology/biology-and-biological-engineering.html

[Monique]

Free, on-demand biology lectures:
http://www.ibioseminars.org/

iBioSeminars is a project of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It receives funding from ASCB, HHMI, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd..