An interactive exercise illustrating the role of amino acid properties in protein folding. More activities
may be found at http://cbm.msoe.edu/teachRes/jmol/index.html.
The European version of US' "Science" journal. Publishing in either journal means dying and going to scientific heaven. Includes FREE podcasts. Check out the gateways to areas like signal transduction and neuroscience. Also gives - limited - access to other, more specialized Nature publications.
An online magazine of broadly-written science articles. Some are freely accessible. Others require a subscription. The archives contain comprehensive explanations of biotech techniques, but are only searcheable by date or issue. To search by subject, simply enter your search term in the search box on the home page.
The American version of "Nature" journal. Official publication of the AAAS (American Association
for the Advancement of Science). You can explore by subject, find out about career fairs, and view
videos and podcasts. NetWatch is a great little section that highlights fun/useful science links. Also
has a great bookstore. A sister site, ScienceNow (a science news magazine with bite-sized stories at
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org) is another fun perk.
User-friendly video that explores the pros and cons at how genetic technologies have already
impacted our daily lives. For instance, it shows how scientists can put a jellyfish reporter gene into a
pig and make it glow in the dark, and how similarly produced fish may act as an early warning system
for pollutants. It also points out the potential concerns that may come from using these kinds of
technologies. More such videos can be found at http://www.livevideo.com/video/sil2222.
Illustrating the ultimate in selfish genes... Male Australian redback spiders have only one shot to mate
successfully and pass on their DNA to the next generation. In this video, you can see how a male
spider starts to mate with the much larger female, and how he somersaults his abdomen onto the
female's jaws. The female begins to eat the male while mating is completed. What the Dickens is the
male thinking? Because mating continues longer and is more successful when the male allows himself
to be eaten, and because females are less likely to accept a second suitor when full, it appears the dead
male wins when it comes to passing on his genes to the next generation.
A series of comprehensive metabolic maps, and maps showing involvement of proteins (gene
products) in various processes such as DNA replication, gene expression, cancer, cell growth and
death, organ system function etc.
A public/private consortium of scientists engaged in identifying human genome-wide methylation
patterns. These methylation patterns are through to play a major role in human disease; patterns are
heritable and may affect the phenotype, yet do not involve changes in DNA sequence.
Birth of an Elephant