Biomedical, Forestry, and Module Info

Biomedical Beat
From the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH), this site says it’s “a monthly digest of research news from NIGMS.” A site with articles, news and images about biomedical research. Another handy site for keeping up with developments in the field.

Forest Encyclopedia Network
Information about Southern forests in the United States. Easy to use, with multiple hyperlinks to definitions of terms which makes it useful for scientists and non-scientists.

Science @ a Distance: e-Learning Modules
Some good information on basic science concepts; however, these are not modules in the Web 2.0 sense of the world. Instead, they are lessons presented in multiple pages of text with links to lessons and other keypoints.

Global Warming, Public Health and Molecular Movies

That’s right–it’s another random round-up of science resources on this Friday.

Global Warming Math: The Hard Numbers
An interesting look at global warming and the cost of stopping global warming from Discovery Magazine

Pathways to Public Health
A portal to many resources about public health–includes sections for educators and students. Some interesting information and points of discussion on this site.

Molecular Movies
A portal of tutorials and animations on molecular processes. Very nice videos. Be careful though, I found a couple of broken links.

Lots of fun Resources

Happy Friday! From single organism ecosystems to Darwin and Botox, there is something for everyone today.

Why Darwin Would Have Loved Botox
This article from Discover Magazine is an interesting take on how Darwin could have used Botox in his research into the expression of human emotion. Finally, an interesting use for Botox.

One Organism Ecosystem
From Wired Science blog, here is a report of the discovery of a one organism ecosystem found in a gold mine in South Africa.

Exploring Genes and Genetic Disorders
On this site you can download a workbook that compliments the Genome poster (that you can request for free). Also included in this great site are tutorials on bioinformatics, a chromosome viewer and information about genetic disorders.

Plant Evolution Timeline
A resource created by the University of Cambridge. You can view a timeline of plant evolution filled with information. Definitely check out the help section before diving into the resource. Note: the resource was created and tested for Firefox and has problems working in Internet Explorer.

National Digestive Diseases Clearinghouse
From NIH, this site provides access to a wealth of information on digestive diseases. I love that they provide easy-to-read publications as well as statistics, information about clinical trials and information in Spanish.

Medicine/Health Science Resources for Friday

This is post 1 for this Friday because when it rains science resources, it pours! There are many great resources for this week so we will have 2 Friday posts. This first post is a group of resources all loosely related, in some way, to medicine/health science/human biology/etc.

Pathophysiology of the Digestive System
So this resource is a little bit older, but still a great online resource. It is an online textbook all about the digestive system. One very helpful piece of this site is the navigation among the sections and chapters which makes it very easy to keep track of where you are in the text and not feel lost.

Springer Acquires Open Access Publisher BioMed Central
This is a big move for the open access movement. Now that Springer owns BioMed Central, it will be interesting to see how this affects the open access movement in general and what it means specifically to those authors and users of BioMed Central articles. Stay tuned.

Computing Life: National Institute of General Medical Science
Great, multimedia site that demonstrates some of the ways that scientists use computers in their research. There are many links to additional resources, PDF of the Computing Life available for download and even an RSS feed if you get hooked on the site.

Animal Drugs @ FDA
The Center for Veterinary Medicine at the FDA now has a searchable database of approved animal drugs. A great resource. Pass on the information to anyone in the veterinary field if they haven’t already heard about this resource. It replaces the Database of Approved Animal Drug Products or Green Book.