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Academic Centres
Becta
Becta's content search service. This service offers selected links to quality
assured resources on the internet, for use in teaching and learning. It is
aimed at education practitioners who are working at all levels in the schools
sector.
HERO
HERO is the web portal for Higher Education & Research
Opportunities in the UK. It includes further information about the
research-funding
bodies above in its Research and Business zones.
Natural History Museum,
London
The Natural History Museum is the United Kingdom's national museum of
natural history, and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and
biodiversity.
Royal Botanical Gardens,
Kew, London
Provides information about Science and Horticulture, Plant Conservation
and also details of their extensive Collections.
UKonline
Aims to tell you all you need to know about UK Government Departments
including MAFF, DOE, DTI, NRA, MOD etc. As part of the transition from
OGC to Office of the e-Envoy, the open.gov.uk
service will be hosted by ukonline.gov.uk from 1st July 2001.
UK
Colleges
Context sensitive map and links to UK Further Education and other Colleges.
UK Research
Councils
Links to and information about BBSRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC and others.
UK
Research Sites
Context sensitive map and links to UK Research Centres.
UK
Universities
Context sensitive map and links to UK Universities.
UK University Biology and BioScience
Departments
Go directly to the Web Sites of over 300 UK University Biology and BioScience
Departments. Now also including Medical, Dental, Veterinary, Nursing and
Midwifery Departments.
Biochemistry
 MIT
Biology Hypertextbook
MIT's famous and wonderful Biology Hypertextbook is organized in a very
straightforward manner and contains a variety of components designed to
be used independently or together to facilitate your understanding of
introductory molecular biology. Includes:
Enzyme
Kinetics
A useful tutorial produced by Thomas Jefferson University covering Activation
Energy, Free Energy, Michaelis-Menten Equation, Briggs-Haldane Equation,
Turnover Number, Enzyme Kinetics in Medicine Temperature, pH and Inhibition.
Practical Examples.
KEGG
Metabolic Pathways
Graphical Pathway Maps of virtually all major biochemical pathways.
The
Medical Biochemistry Page
Large resource produced by Indiana State University with both in-house
content and links to external sites.
Biomedical
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
US based site contains a useful A to Z of Health Topics.
BioMedNet: the Internet
community for Biological and Medical Researchers
BioMedNet - owned by Elsevier Science - is the website for biological
medical researchers. To date there are more than 800,000 members of BioMedNet
-- with more than 20,000 people joining per month. Membership to BioMedNet
is free, and members can search all of BioMedNet without charge. However,
viewing full-text articles from publishers often requires payment or a
subscription.
British Medical Journal
The BMJ aims to help doctors everywhere practise better medicine and to
influence the debate on health. To achieve these aims they publish original
scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting
on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting
health. This site contains the full text of all articles published in
the weekly BMJ from January 1994.
The Council For Professions
Supplementary to Medicine
The CPSM acts to register Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers. Site
provides details of the registration process.
Human
Anatomy On-Line
Animations, Images and Descriptions of Skeletal, Digestive, Muscle, Lymphatic,
Endocrine, Nervous, Cardiovascular, Reproductive and Urinary Systems.
Institute of Biomedical
Science
News, events, publications and list of accredited courses recognised by
this Professional Body.
Interactive Pregnancy
Calendar and Human Biology
The Interactive Pregnancy Calendar will build a day-by-day customized
calendar detailing the development of a baby from before conception to
birth.
Medical World Search
Medical Search Engine.
MedExplorer
Health and Medical Internet Search Engine.
OMNI (Organising Medical
Networked Information)
A gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health and medicine,
aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health
and medical sciences. OMNI is created by a core team of information specialists
and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical
Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further
afield.
The Medical Biochemistry Page
Large resource produced by Indiana State University with both in-house
content and links to external sites.
World
Health Organisation
Global Authority with a useful A-Z of Health Topics.
Biotechnology
About Biotech
From Access Excellence. Lots of in-house content including useful graphics
gallery, careers in biotechnology, and issues and ethics materials.
Bio Online
A comprehensive site for information and services related to biotechnology
and pharmaceutical industries.
ClubBIO
Collaboration of the Biochemical Society, the National Centre for Biotechnology
and the Society for General Microbiology as a way to ensue that their
educational resources reach the teachers for whom they are designed. Contains
details of events, a speakers database and in-house resources.
European Initiative for
Biotechnology Education
EIBE seeks to promote skills, enhance understanding and facilitate public
debate throughout Europe. Site contains teaching materials suitable for
16 -19 year olds in the form of downloadable PDF files for a range of
biotechnological processes, problems and issues.
National Centre
for Biotechnology Education
From the University of Reading, UK. This is a large resource for Biotechnology
in schools. Contains details of courses. lab protocols, materials (for
purchase), safety information and web links
Cell Biology
SoftCELL
This is the Web learning site of the British Society for Cell Biology.
Useful infomration on cell biology for students and teachers.
Companies
AstraZeneca
Global pharmaceutical company. Site has details of products, research
and career opportunities.
Aventis
Formed in 199 by the merger of Hoechst
and Rhône-Poulenc.
Global company involved in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, animal health
and industry. Sadly the Hoechst
Internet Forum is now no longer supported, but there is information
about the company its products and career opportunities. You can even
subscribe to their mailing list to receive press releases, investor information
or general information about the company.
GlaxoSmithKline
GSK is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare
companies. Site contains information about GSK's products, research and
careers opportunities in the company.
Pfizer
Pfizer Inc is a research-based, global pharmaceutical company. Site gives
details of grants and publications and also includes Pfizer
Medical Humanities Initiative a site for humanism in medicine, with
role models, resources, and stories of hope and inspiration for physicians,
doctors-to-be, healthcare professionals and patients.
Roche
Global Healthcare company. Site gives some details of products, research
and careers opportunities.
Ecology
Friends Of The Earth
The largest international network of environmental groups in the world,
represented in 61 countries. Site contains useful information and news
about FOEs national and local environmental campaigns, details of their
publications and an extensive web links page.
Greenpeace
Headline news and details of campaign events from this environmental pressure
group.
Virtual Library of Ecology
and Biodiversity
The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the
creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is
run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links
for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the
biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being
amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.
Education Bodies (including Examination Boards)
ACCAC
Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales.
ASET
Accreditation, Commercial and General Education.
AQA
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) came into existence in
April 2000 following the merger of the AEB and NEAB and is the largest
of the three English unitary awarding bodies.
BECTa
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.
City &
Guilds
DfEE
Department for Education and Employment.
DENI
Department of Education for Northern Ireland.
Edexcel
English unitary awarding body.
FEDA
Further Education Development Agency (now The
Learning and Skills Development Agency).
ISIS
Independent Schools Information Service.
Learning and Skills Development
Agency
Strategic national resource for the development of policy and
practice in post-16 education and training. The Agency was previously
known as the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA).
NATED
National Assembly for Wales Training and Education Department
National Curriculum Online
The UK Government's definitive curriculum site for teachers. This site
links every National Curriculum programme of study requirement to high-quality,
relevant teaching resources.
NEAB
Northern Examinations and Assessment Board - now part of AQA.
NGfL
The National Grid for Learning is the UK's national focal point for learning
on the Internet. Since its launch in 1998, the NGfL has grown from a few
hundred pages to well over 5,000 pages of hosted content and 300,000 pages
of indexed content.
NICCEA
Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment.
OCR
Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations. English unitary awarding body.
OFSTED
Office for Standards in Education. Officially the Office of Her Majesty's
Chief Inspector of Schools in England.
QCA
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
LT Scotland
Learning and Teaching Scotland was formed in 1st July 2000 from the merger
of SCET (Scottish Council for Educational Technology) and Scottish Consultative
Council on the Curriculum (Scottish CCC).
SQA
Scottish Qualifications Authority.
UCAS
Universities and Colleges Addmissions Service.
VTC
Virtual Teacher Centre.
WJEC
Welsh Joint Education Committee.
Genetics
GlaxoSmithKline
Genetics Site
Visually stimulating and informative site with information on Basics of
Genetics , DNA, DNA and Human Diversity, Mutations, and Genes. Some really
excellent animations on DNA and genes.
Immunology
Immune
System Glossary
Helpful in making sense of immunolgical terminology.
Undergraduate
Courses in Immunology
Listing of courses from the British Society for Immunology
The Vaccine Page
Up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of vaccine
resources on the Internet.
The
Edward Jenner Museum
Location and details of this museum, together with information about the
life of this great scientist.
Journals
Ingeneta
Biology / Life Sciences
ingenta is the global research gateway serving the online information
needs of over 1.4 million visitors a month. It provides a free online
search service of published content from reliable research sources and
is one of the UK's top 20 Web services.
Journal of Physiology
Searchable index of papers with abstracts and full text versions of articles
available online.
Nature
News, articles, features and jobs.
New Scientist
News, articles, features and jobs.
Bio online
List of online biotechnology journals
Science
News, articles and features
Learned Societies
Learned Societies represent biology specialists and usually organise
regular conferences and workshops. Many societies have their own journal.
Most of the links below will therefore contain information about the activities
of the society. Many link to the society's journal (which is often available
online). Many include links to other related Web resources.
American Society of Plant
Physiologists
Anatomical Society
Association for Science
Education
Biochemical
Society
British Association for
Psychopharmacology
British
Biophysical Society
British
Diabetic Association
British
Electrophoresis Society
British Neuroscience Association
British Nutrition
Foundation
British Pharmacological
Society
British
Phycological Society (algae)
British Society for Cell
Biology
British Society
for Developmental Biology
British Society
for Immunology
Genetics Society
Institute of Biology
Institute of Biomedical
Science
Institute of Food Science
and Technology
Nutrition Society
Physiological
Society
Society
for Developmental Biology
Society for Endocrinology
Society for Experimental
Biology
Society for General Microbiology
UK Life Sciences Committee
Microbiology
About:The
Human Internet - Microbiology Web Links
Extensive list of Web links giving information on microbes, cells, microbiology
careers and more.
Access
Excellence Resource Center: Microbiology Websites
Regularly updated list of Microbiology Web Resources
Gram-staining
Procedure
Clear protocol for this microbiological test.
Introduction
to the Archaea
From the University of California at Berkeley. Excellent introduction
(including images) and links to Web Resources.
Introduction
to the Bacteria
From the University of California at Berkeley. Excellent introduction
(including images) and links to Web Resources.
Introduction
To Clinical Microbiology
Details of bacterial cell structure, laboratory methods and taxonomy of
bacteria.
Introduction
to the Viruses
From the University of California at Berkeley. Excellent introduction
(including images) and links to Web Resources.
Microbes.info
A microbiology information portal containing a vast collection of resources
including articles, news, frequently asked questions, and links pertaining
to the field of microbiology.
Microbiology
Online
Educational resources and materials to support biology teachers and technicians
from the Society for General Microbiology.
Microbiology
Video Library
From the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Leicester.
Some excellent Web Movies of techniques and microorganisms - File sizes
large (hence long download times) and requires QuickTime player to view,
but results well worth the wait.
Nutrition
Institute of
Food Science and Technology
Information about events, courses and careers in food science. The School
Sciences page gives some useful experiments and information for teachers
and pupils.
Nutrition CABWeb
Access to key research journals in nutritional science, including British
Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition Research Reviews, Public Health Nutrition,
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews
Series A,Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B, Information in Nutritional
Science
TUFTS Nutrition
Navigator
An excellent Rating Guide to to Nutrition Websites. Searchable and well
organised site.
Nutrition Society
Events, publications and links to nutrition Web Resources.
Pharmaceutical
PharmWeb
PharmWeb contains information from and for pharmaceutical and health related
organisations. A well developed and structured site which has been designed
to be fully interactive. Information is retrieved and disseminated using
several methods including the use of mailing lists, forms, responsive
questionnaires and on-line databases.
Pharmindex
A comprehensive searcheable directory of professional pharmaceutical and
medical contacts, including educational web sites, manufacturers and suppliers.
Plants
American Society of Plant
Physiologists
News, events, publications and a relevant Web Links page
Kitchen
Culture Kits
Excellent site for hobbyists, students and teachers to learn about the
art of tissue culture. Site lists sources of chemicals, supplies, cultures,
vendors information sites for beginners and advanced growers, and listserv
for exchange of information. Some great images.
Dendrome
A collection of forest tree genome databases and other forest genetic
information resources for the international forest genetics community.
Plant Physiology
(Journal)
Abstracts and full text versions of many papers available online.
Plant
Photobiology Notes
A collection of notes and "bookmarks" with information on the
effects of visible and ultraviolet radiation on plants, and on methods
and equipment used for studying these effects.
The Plant Cell (Journal)
Abstracts and full text versions of many papers available online.
Plant
Hormones
Discussion list, job vacancies, useful in-house content and links to relevant
Web Resources.
Royal Botanical Gardens,
Kew, London
Provides information about Science and Horticulture, Plant Conservation
and also details of their extensive Collections.
SAPS
Science and Plants for Schools. In-house resources (worksheets and publications)
for teachers and pupils to encourage interest in plant science and molecular
biology. Also houses extensive Web Links page.
Virtual
Plant Cell
Online interactive investigation of the structure of a plant cell.
Professional Bodies
Institute
of Biology
The professional body for all biologists
Institute of Biomedical
Science
The professional body for biomedical scientists in all fields of work,
including medical laboratory scientific officers in the National Health
Service and related services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its aims
are to promote and develop biomedical science and its practitioners and
to establish, improve and maintain professional standards.
Institute of Science
Technology
The professional body for all technicians working in science.
Association of Science
Educaton
For teachers, advisers, technicians, industrialists and others contributing
to science education. With a membership of over 24,000.
Schools and Colleges
Children's Tropical
Forests
News, maps, facts and projects to encourage interest in the world's rainforests
Gondar
Design Biology
Help with GCSE and A-level coursework, revision and homework.
Mark Rothery's Biology
Web
Site aimed mainly at AQA (B) AS & A2 (A level) Biology. Extensive
notes, summaries and past paper questions to help with learning and revision.
Schools
Online Project Science
In-house resources library, simple practical examples and chat room.
BioTopics
interactive resource materials developed to support the study of Biology
at secondary level - Key Stages 3 & 4, GCSE (both Dual Award and Single
Subject) and AS/A level.
UK
Schools Resource Page - Biological Sciences
Links to Web Resources especially for schools.
Special Needs
British Dyslexia
Association
Information, publications and news.
NASEN
National Association for Special Educational Needs. Site contains research
database, publications, responses to consultation papers, events, and
links to other relevant sites.
Television
BBC Education
Homepage
Vast professional site with both excellent in-house content and links
to other relevant Web resources. Also houses the excellent
AS Guru site - an interactive site to assist with homework and revision.
Channel 4
Site often contains useful information when C4 are broadcasting educational
materials.
Tomorrow's World
Companion site to the BBC's popular weekly science programme.
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