Actionbioscience.org - Educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy. Articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education.
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) - The Society is a member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), the International Federation of Cell Biology, and of the Coalition for the Education in the Life Sciences (CELS).
American Society of Human Genetics - Professional membership organization for human geneticists in North America. Over 5,000 members include researchers, academicians, clinicians, laboratory practice professionals, genetic counselors, nurses and others involved in human genetics.
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) - Founded in 1924 to promote the growth and development of plant physiology, to encourage and publish research in plant physiology, and to promote the interests and growth of plant scientists in general. Over the decades the Society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology as well as to serve the basic interests of plant science. It publishes the highly cited and respected journals Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell.
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) - An international and interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned with problems or issues that involve politics or public policy and one or more of the life sciences. The association publishes a journal, Politics and the Life Sciences; a newsletter, APLS News; and a membership directory, The APLS Directory.
Bioinformatics Organization - Organization ccommitted to opening access to bioinformatics research projects, providing Open Source software for bioinformatics by hosting its development, and keeping biological information freely available.
Biologia Centrali-Americana (Electronic) - This digital edition of the out-of-print Biologia Centrali-Americana makes all 58 biological volumes available. Descriptions of over 50,000 (and images of over 18,000) species of animals and plants.
Center for Genetics and Society - A nonprofit information and public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies.
Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research - An organization comprised of nationally-recognized patient organizations, universities, scientific societies, foundations, and individuals with life-threatening illnesses and disorders, advocating for the advancement of breakthrough research and technologies in regenerative medicine - including stem cell research and somatic cell nuclear transfer - in order to cure disease and alleviate suffering.
Entomological Society of America - The largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines.
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) - An interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature - including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations.
Human Biology Association - Promotes education, discussion, integration and dissemination of research on all aspects of human biological variation through annual scientific meetings and periodic publications.
International Biometric Society - An international society for the advancement of biological science through the development of quantitative theories and the application, development and dissemination of effective mathematical and statistical techniques.
National Center for Science Education (NCSE) - Defends the teaching of evolution in public schools. We are a nationally-recognized clearinghouse for information and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom and "scientific creationism" out.
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) -
An international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity.
Actionbioscience.org - Aarticles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers, and bioscience education.
AmphibiaWeb - An information system for amphibian conservation biology. Provides ready access to taxonomic information for every recognized species of amphibian in the world. Species accounts are added regularly by specialists and volunteers containing species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, literature references, photos and range maps.
Antlion Pit - A collection of resources related to the antlion, or doodlebug.
Bio Web - Tools for DNA and protein sequence analysis, bio-journals, companies catalogues, protocols, web bio-directories, research institutions and other sites of biological interest.
Bio-IT - Media source on the convergence of information technology and the life sciences.
BioExchange - A leading internet-enabling platform for the biopharmaceutical sector.
Biofind.com - An online vertical community for the biotech, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries offering a full range of services, including the infamous Biotech Rumor Mill, job vacancies, event listings, technology transfer, chat and business opportunities.
Bioinformatics.org - Organization ccommitted to opening access to bioinformatics research projects, providing Open Source software for bioinformatics by hosting its development, and keeping biological information freely available.
Biology Online - Biological information, including biology tutorials and a dictionary of biology.
Biology Project - Interactive resource for learning biology.
BiologyBrowser - Resources, useful links, and a forum for connecting hundreds of researchers and information scientists worldwide.
BioMed Central - Provides an efficient service for authors wishing to publish research reports in every field of biological sciences and clinical medicine, using a full peer-review process. Places all research published by BioMed Central on PubMed Central in full and without delay, ensuring permanent visibility, immediate listing in PubMed and easy linking to other related information.
BioMedNet - Life sciences portal for biological medical researchers.
Bioresearch Online - Information for the worldwide bioresearch and life sciences industries. Provides daily news updates and in-depth feature stories about drug discovery, research and development advancements, university-industry collaborations, and regulatory issues.
BioScience Writers - A group of research scientists with expertise in scientific grant development, manuscript preparation, and report editing that provides editorial services on scientific documents.
Biosciences Virtual Library - Biosciences, including biodviersity and ecology, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, developmental biology, environment, genetics, microbiology, model organisms, mycology, neurobiology, parasitology, physiology, vision science and more.
BIOSIS - Life information databases and resources.
Biospace.com - Hub for life sciences: biotech, biotechnology and pharmaceutical news, jobs, companies, stocks.
Biozone/Bio Links- Find links relating to animal behaviour, biotechnology, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, health and disease, plant biology, and more.
Celera - Source of genomic, proteomic and related biological and medical information. Includes software tools that provide the ability to view, browse and analyze this information in integrated ways to facilitate discovery.
Cell - Publishing 26 issues of the most interesting discoveries in biology every year, including an annual Review Issue. Every paper published in Cell is freely available starting 12 months after publication. Cell publishes findings of unusual significance in any area of experimental biology, including but not limited to cell biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, cancer, human genetics, systems biology, signaling, and disease.
CELLS Alive! - This site represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. A stock video library provides producers with a range of subjects, and includes both live recording and computer animation. A variety of immune cells, bacteria, parasites, and aquatic organisms are available for licensing for educational, broadcast, and commercial use.
Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) - At the CBE, multidisciplinary research teams find solutions and applications for industrially relevant problems and potentials of microbial biofilm formation.
Charles Darwin: After the Origin - The year 2009 marked both Charles Robert Darwin’s 200th birthday (February 12th) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. This exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum of the Earth and the Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - A research and educational institution. The Laboratory has research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology and plant genetics and a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences. James D. Watson, president of the Laboratory, shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his part in the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA.
Creation "Science" Debunked by Lenny Frank - For most of us, the controversy over creation and evolution was settled way back in 1925, when Clarence Darrow eviscerated William Jennings Bryan in a country courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee. However, a growing number of recent attempts to remove evolutionary theory from the schoolroom, in favor of a "scientific" version of the biblical Genesis story, demonstrates that the anti-evolutionist movement is still alive and well in America. The popular image of creationists tends to picture a group of rural hayseeds with not much education, who continually thump the Good Book as they speak. Modern creationists, however, are very slick, are usually well-educated, and are very skilled in the techniques of debate and sophistry. Here is a quick and dirty guide to the creation/evolution battle. Also see There Is No Evidence for a Worldwide Flood.
CSUBIOWEB - Consolidates existing WWW biological science teaching and research resources. Creates and distributes original multimedia resources for teaching biology.
Darwin Manuscripts Project -
On this American Museum of Natural History site you will find the manuscripts that record Charles Darwin's work as a practicing scientist. The database at its core—DARBASE—catalogues some 45,000 Darwin scientific manuscripts. These are currently represented by 15,125 high resolution digital images. Thus far 7,428 manuscript pages have been transcribed to exacting standards and all are presented in easy to read format.
DNA Interactive - Dedicated to the moment on 28 Feb 1953 when Jim Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double-helical structure of DNA - and to scientists who breathed life into that structure.
Edwards v. Aguillard: Amicus Curiae Brief by 72 Nobel Laureates - Summary of the argument: "The Louisiana Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act (the 'Act') violates the Establishment Clause, as incorporated in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act's illegitimate bias toward the outlook of a particular religious sect is reflected in two separate provisions. One calls for the presentation of the religious tenets of 'creation-science' in public-school science classes. The other singles out the domain of evolutionary science for special pejorative treatment. The Act mandates 'balanced treatment' of evolution and 'creation-science,' but contains no definition of 'creation-science' beyond a tautological reference to 'scientific evidences of creation.' Orthodox 'creation-science' has traditionally embraced religious tenets, most notably: divine creation 'from nothing,' distinct 'kinds' of plants and animals, a worldwide flood, and a relatively recent inception of the universe. In their brief, appellants deny that the statutory term 'creation-science' reflects those religious tenets; instead, appellants insist upon a sterilized alternative: the evidence for 'abrupt appearance in complex form.' Nevertheless, for four different reasons, appellants' abrupt-appearance construct must be rejected as a post hoc invention that misdefines the term 'creation-science' as used in the Act. First, the legislative history includes citations both to specifically recommended books for teachers and to significant publishers of creation-science material. All the recommended books and all other creation-science publications by those publishers present orthodox creation-science. Second, appellants' abrupt-appearance construct is not sufficiently well-defined to plausibly have been the Louisiana legislature's intended meaning. At times appellants quote the use of the word 'abrupt' by respected scientists, even though those scientists use the term to describe periods of hundreds or thousands of years. Either appellants are badly misusing those authorities or they are suggesting the indefensible proposition that the Louisiana legislature intended teachers to present a balanced treatment of evolution and evolution. Third, Louisiana law requires a term of art to be given its 'received meaning and acceptation' among the specialists who use it. The published works of those who call themselves creation-scientists uniformly employ 'creation-science' to mean orthodox creation-science; indeed, we have not been able to unearth a single book setting forth appellants' sterilized abrupt-appearance construct. Finally, it is well established that this Court normally defers to the lower federal courts' construction of state statutes. Neither the District Court nor the Court of Appeals in this case accepted the appellants' construction of the term 'creation-science.' In sum, all relevant guides to the Act's meaning confirm that it calls for the religious tenets of orthodox creation-science to be taught in the public schools. The Act's unconstitutional purpose is also evident in its requirement that both 'creation-science' and 'evolution-science' be taught as 'theory' and not as 'proven scientific fact.' To a scientist or a science educator, the distinction between scientific theories and scientific facts is well understood. A 'fact' is a property of a natural phenomenon. A 'theory' is a naturalistic explanation for a body of facts. That distinction permeates all fields of scientific endeavor. It is no more relevant to discussions of the origin of the universe and life than to any other area of research. By singling out one topic in science - 'origins' - for special treatment, the legislature conveys the false message that the prevailing theory of 'origins' - evolutionary theory - is less robust and reliable than all other scientific concepts. This misleadingly disparaging treatment of evolution confirms that the Act favors a particular religious belief."
Embryo Images: Normal & Abnormal Mammalian Development - A tutorial that uses scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) to teach mammalian embryology. The 3-D like quality of the micrographs coupled with selected line drawings and minimal text provide understanding of the complex morphological changes that occur in utero. Because early human embryos are not readily available and because embryogenesis is very similar across mammalian species, the majority of micrographs that are utilized in this tutorial are of mouse embryos. The remainder are human.
Encyclopedia of Life - An effort to gather and share scientific knowledge about all living things in a single online resource.
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) - A center for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.
Evolution, Science, and Society - A "White Paper" defining the challenges and opportunities facing the study of evolution. [1995]
Evotourism - The Smithsonian's travel-information service that helps you find places worldwide that are of interest to the science of evolution or offer eye-opening evidence of the process of natural selection. Evotourism provides original articles by scientists and accomplished journalists offering expert background and practical advice. The site lets you know where to go and when, and what to do when you get there. Videos and photographs help make the findings clear. Curated forum gives scientists and other travelers a meeting place for exchanging insights and tips.
ExPASy Molecular Biology Server - This is the ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). Dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE.
Global Change Biology -
Publishes primary research articles, technical advances, research reviews, commentaries and letters
in subject areas concerning current environmental change that affects a substantial part of the globe and biological system.
How Stem Cells Work - This article provides brief background about stem cells, pluripotent cells that can develop into every cell, and related matters. Topics include how stem cells operate, acquiring embryonic stem cells for research, replicating stem cells in a lab, research challenges, using stem cells to treat diseases, and controversy over research. From HowStuffWorks.
Labome.org - Organizes biomedical grants, patents, publications, and webpages from a selected group of websites around research topics, genomes and genes, scientific experts, and species for easy browsing and searching.
Lepidoptera - Scientific portal exclusively focused on butterfly and moth (Lepidoptera) studies - news, LepsGlossary, directory, e-Museum, almanac, who is who.
Lucidcentral.com - How do you identify something (an organism, a soil, a disease) if you do not already know what it is? Generally, you need a key, a system built to help you identify an unknown item. Keys can be built to identify members of any group: the species of ants in Africa, the types of stars in our galaxy, the kinds of bacteria infecting a wound. Keys are built by experts to enable non-experts to identify their sample. Lucid software helps you in this process, providing a database and using Lucid Builder to list all of the characteristics you know to occur and matching them to their correct answer (which might be an identification of a plant or animal, a decision on a farming system, or a diagnosis of a complaint).
Marxism and Natural Science - A collection of articles by Marxist and reference writers on natural science. It includes a variety of writers including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Haldane, Bernal, as well as a subject section on Lysenkoism.
MicrobeLibrary.org - A peer-reviewed, web-based collection of scholarly resources about the microbial world. The Library builds upon the scientific expertise, intellectual creativity, and private collections of the 45,000 members of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
MicrobeWorld - Portal to the micro-scale universe of bacteria and viruses.
Microbiology - Microbiology is the study of living organisms of microscopic size generally organisms <1mm = microorganism (microbe). Consists of 5 groups of organisms: bacteria, protozoa, viruses, algae, and fungi. This site provides microbiology information including microbiology jobs, general information on qualifications, glossary of microbiology terms and immunology information.
Molecules of HIV - Takes a plain-english approach to the molecular biology of HIV and the human immune system.
Mycology.Net - Data on the biodiversity of fungi, including lichens, especially their taxonomy, distribution, phylogeny, descriptive characters, collections, literature. Information about mycological institutions, journals, databases (link sections) and persons engaged in mycology
PLoS Biology: Open-Access Journal - Features works in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics.
Protein Data Bank - Worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
Protist Image Data (PID) - Provides pictures and short descriptions of selected protist genera, especially those genera whose species are frequently used as experimental organisms or are important in studies of organismal evolution and up-to-date information on the morphology, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of these organisms.
PubMed Central - NIH repository for peer-reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences.
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science - Clear thinking oasis.
Supports scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering.
Scientist, The - News journal for the life scientist provided with the cooperation of the Institute for Science Information (ISI) and the University of Pennsylvania.
Stem Cell Information - This site is the official National Institutes of Health (NIH) resource for stem cell research. Includes an introduction to stem cells and the "possibility of cell-based therapies to treat disease, which is often referred to as regenerative or reparative medicine," and information about research ethics, federal policy, research projects and papers, and more.The NIH library stem cell literature database is not available to the public.
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology - The bacteria are a group of single-cell microorganisms with procaryotic cellular configuration. The genetic material (DNA) of procaryotic cells is not contained within a nucleus, which is the definitive characteristic of eukaryotic cells, such as those that make up plants and animals. Until recently, bacteria were the only known type of procaryotic cell, and the discipline of biology related to their study was called bacteriology. In the 1980's, with the outbreak of molecular techniques applied to phylogeny of life, another group of procaryotes was defined and informally named "archaebacteria ". This group of procaryotes has since been renamed archaea and has been awarded biological domain status on the level with bacteria and eukarya. The science of bacteriology includes the study of both domains of procaryotic cells, but the name "bacteriology" is not likely to change to reflect the inclusion of archaea in the discipline. Actually, many archaea have been studied as intensively and as long as the bacteria, but with the notion that the archaea were bacteria.
Tree of Life Web Project, The (ToL) - A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. Each page contains information about a particular group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs, phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or the salamanderfish of Western Australia). ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
University of Nebraska State Museum: Division of Entomology - State-of-the-art collections facilities that house approximately 2 million pinned, fluid-preserved, papered, and slide-mounted insects and arachnids. Its research collections in entomology rank in the top 20 collections of this type in North America and represent one of only three with large holdings of Great Plains material (the University of Kansas and Iowa State University being the other two).
UNSW Embryology - University of New South Wales embryology program: reproduction, human development, animal development, embryo, fetus, developmental abnormalities, cloning, stem cells.
World Biodiversity Database - A continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million). The WBD contains taxonomic information (hierarchies), species names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available. A direct link to CMBI provides genetic information on protein sequence (from the SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL databases), nucleic sequence (EMBL) and 3D structures (PDB) for each taxon.
WWW Virtual Library of Cell Biology - A guide to major online resources in cell biology indexed by subject with annotated links: cell biology, angiogenesis, apoptosis, programmed cell death, cell cycle, cytokinesis, cytoskeleton, cell motility, motors, extracellular matrix, microscopy, proteins, biogenesis, degradation, signal transduction, growth, differentiation, shape change, vesicle, trafficking, transport, targeting, targetting, sorting, secretion, endocytosis, exocytosis, laboratories, conferences, symposia, courses, organizations, societies, journals, vendors.
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