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The discussion highlights various educational resources and websites focused on biology, particularly emphasizing animations and videos that illustrate biological processes. A notable mention is a time-lapse video of Xenopus toad eggs, showcasing embryonic development. Users share links to several sites offering animations, tutorials, and documentaries on topics like mitosis, evolution, and immunology. Recommendations include resources from the National Institutes of Health, educational platforms for biology and neuroscience, and specific videos on DNA replication and transcription. Participants express interest in high-quality visuals and seek additional resources for understanding complex biological concepts, particularly in immunology and brain evolution. The conversation encourages sharing of valuable educational content and resources across the biology community.
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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

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https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/trending-bio-chem-tech-articles/
 
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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.
 
Please feel free top post any website which are great resources or have nice animations!
 
I've got some more

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.
 
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Cool! Those are some crazy pictures!
 
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...
 
That is a really nice tutorial AG, if you know more of these I'd like to know that :)!
 
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I just found two cool websites:

Animated Tutorials
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
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.
 
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http://www.thymos.com/tat/title.html
I don't know 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.
 
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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.)
 
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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 website -- written for teachers but accessible to the general public -- is intended to provide "one-stop shopping" for evolution education. The website 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/
 
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Looking for immunology animations

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
 
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The Center for Evolutionary Psychology:

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

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
 
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On Genetics

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

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

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

On Medical Genetics:
[url]http://www.yourgenesyourhealth.org/[/url]

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

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

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

DNA from the beginning. Intesresting as divulgative
[url]http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/[/url]
 
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Thank you Ryokan :smile:
 
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Here's a website for all you microbiologists and for anyone interested in microscopy

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

Enjoy
 
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Nature Chemical Biology

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

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
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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tnx for the website, really good
 
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Histone Acetylation Song

Found this on YouTube:

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

Pretty funny!:smile:

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 into DNA
 
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You must check this video out if you are interested in molecular biology!

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?
 
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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.
 
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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 )



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.
 
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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..
 
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Here's a nice virology and immunology resource.
 

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Beren said:
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.

I totally agree. :smile:
 
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Vincent racaniello's virology blog is a very helpful resource, and he has extensive courses on virology and influenza, was well as several podcasts.
http://www.virology.ws
 
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This one is a basic introduction to neuroscience. It's called "Neuroscience For Kids" but the material is actually quite in-depth and it has a lot of information that anyone who is new to the field would probably be interested in.

Table of contents:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
 
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Hello guys :cool:

I need some books about Neuroscience/Neuroanatomy in order to learn this science independently, I have got some ones in computer but I am not sure if they are good books:

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10799/
Neuroscience, 2nd edition
Editors: Dale Purves, George J Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, Lawrence C Katz, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, James O McNamara, and S Mark Williams.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071390111/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) 5th Edition
Editors: Eric R. Kandel , James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell, Steven A. Siegelbaum, A. J. Hudspeth

Just read what you like, and compare a couple of books, and wikipedia etc to see if they all say the same thing.
 
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atyy said:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10799/
Neuroscience, 2nd edition
Editors: Dale Purves, George J Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, Lawrence C Katz, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, James O McNamara, and S Mark Williams.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071390111/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) 5th Edition
Editors: Eric R. Kandel , James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell, Steven A. Siegelbaum, A. J. Hudspeth

Just read what you like, and compare a couple of books, and wikipedia etc to see if they all say the same thing.
atyy said:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10799/
Neuroscience, 2nd edition
Editors: Dale Purves, George J Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, Lawrence C Katz, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, James O McNamara, and S Mark Williams.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071390111/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) 5th Edition
Editors: Eric R. Kandel , James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell, Steven A. Siegelbaum, A. J. Hudspeth

Just read what you like, and compare a couple of books, and wikipedia etc to see if they all say the same thing.
Thanks :wink:

And which book would you advise me where I can find the detailed anatomical description of various structures of brain (hippocampus, amygdala and etc.) with their functions? In those four books are scarce information about various structures.
 
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Here is a Neuroscience book I really liked when I read it in the 1980's.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/019515956X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 (and others).
Apparently at least some reviewers still like it (5th edition).

Its not really a textbook, but more like a book to read after getting the textbook introduction to brain/nervous system parts, neuron cell biology, and neuronal physiology.
To me, its most interesting aspects elaborates on the textbook knowledge to describe how neurons take their varied inputs and compute their output. This involves understanding the cable properties of neurons (used for modeling the electrophysiology of the neuronal branches) and how local brain circuits compute their outputs. This stuff is at the heart of how a nervous system does its work.
 
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