WWW Resources in Biology

Research & News

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The Visible Human Project is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals.

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
The Tree of Life at the University of Arizona is a distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity

http://www.artigen.com/newswire/scitech.html
Scitech Newswire Science and Technology is a list of news from many sources, updated hourly.

Online learning

http://www.biology.arizona.edu
The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona.

http://vcourseware4.calstatela.edu/
Virtual FlyLab allows you play the role of a research geneticist. It is an educational application where students learn the principles of genetic inheritance by mating virtual fruit flies and analyzing the resultant offspring.

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
WebPath:The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education is an electronic laboratory that includes over 1800 images along with text and tutorials that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease states. Not for the squeamish.

http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
The Heart: An Online Exploration, created by the Franklin Institute Science Museum, is a thorough, well illustrated and animated guide to the human heart.

Teaching Resources

http://biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/
The Science Education Connection at The University of Arizona is the home page for Master of Science Degree Program in General Biology for Secondary School Teachers. It has an excellent collection of research-based lesson plans developed by teachers in this program.

http://biotech.biology.arizona.edu/
The BIOTECH Project, sponsored by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona and funded by the Flinn Foundation, is designed to help Arizona high school teachers use molecular biology and biotechnology in the classroom. Their web site contains well-tested biotechnology lesson plans for teachers.

http://www.gene.com/ae/index.html
Access Excellence by Genentech has a collection of peer-reviewed/classroom-tested lesson plans developed by teachers around the country, as well as a rich collection of current science news and issues.