Recommended Websites
Life Sciences World - for information related to the life sciences in the form of news, and reports, events, articles and much more. Articles are searchable.
Science Daily: Biotechnology News - leading online magazine and web portal devoted to science, technology and medicine. Find the latest news, articles, vidoes, images and book reviews on just about everything from astrophysics to zoology.
The Bio-Web - for all kinds of information on cell and molecular biology news, articles and other online resources. Also included are links to games like Pacman and Tetris, and videos to give a quick break from learning!
BioSupplyNet - directory of biomedical research supplies and services. Search product or supplier information on: molecular biology reagents, cell biology reagents, immunoreagents, protein chemistry reagents, chromatography, microscopy, computer software and more..
ExPasy - ExPasy (Expert Protein Analysis System) WWW server is provided as a service to the life science community by a multidisciplinary team at the Swiss Institute of BioInformatics (SIB). It is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE.
Infotrieve - infotrieve provides article research and delivery. Access free-to-search database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 journals.
Intute: Health and Life Sciences - free online service providing you with access to the web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. There are over 31,000 resource descriptions listed here that are freely accessible for keyword searching or browsing. Formerly known as BIOME, it contains specialised gateways of OMNI (medical and health sciences), NMAP (nursing, midwifery and allied health professions), VetGate (animal health and veterinary science), BioResearch (biological and biomedical research), Natural Selection (the natural world) and AgriFor (agriculture, food and forestry).
MedlinePlus - MedlinePlus contains pages of carefully selected links to Web resources with authoritative health information, including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources and 650 health topics. It contains links to pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE/PubMed database (PubMed/Medline is a Web-based, searchable database of over 16 million article references published in more than 4,800 biomedical journals and magazines), allowing you to find references to latest health professional articles on your topic.
NLM Gateway - National Library of Medicine (US) Gateway allows searching of databases (such as TOXLINE and PubMed) and access to other Health and Medical resources.
PDRHealth - PDRHealth is one of the Thomson family of websites. It provides information on diseares, staying healthy, drugs, clinical trials, and treatment option. In particular, the information on drugs is compiled from the annually published Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), one of Thomson's respected resource.
PubMed - PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Central PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. NLM. Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted. Available journals cover topics such as biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cell biology, clinical pharmacology, genetics, genomics, medical ethics, medical imaging, medical informatics & decision making, medical research methodology, microbiology, molecular biology, physiology, and much more.
Scirus - Scirus is a science-specific search engine available on the Internet. It was launched by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information. It focuses on web sites containing scientific content and searches BioMed Central, Beilstein on ChemWeb, MEDLINE, and others to bring you peer-reviewed articles. Try the Advanced Search option. Email & Save functions are also available.
Clark, D. P. & Pazdernik, N.J. (2009). Biotechnology: Applying the genetic revolution. Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press.
Seidman, L. A. (2008). Basic laboratory calculations for biotechnology. San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
Villiers, M. M., Aramwit, P. & Kwon, G. S. (Ed.). (2009). DNA: Nanotechnology in drug delivery. New York: Springer.
Brown, S. S. (2007). Opportunities in biotechnology careers. New York: McGraw Hill.
