Careers
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Bio Career Guide This resource guide is part of a program designed by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BlO) to introduce biotechnology to young people and to demonstrate the benefits of bringing this new technology to the world. The resource guide describes positions available in a typical biotechnology company.
Careers in Biotechnology This outstanding site has information in the following five webpages: 1. An overview of careers in biotechnology. 2. Profiles of actual people in different careers with the biotechnology industry. 3. How to pursue a biotechnology career. 4. A list of potential employers and employment opportunities. 5. Industry Facts 5.
Summer Internships and other opportunities
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UNC Research Apprenticeship Program This program was developed by the UNC-CH School of Medicine to increase the number of disadvantaged students who pursue careers in the science fields. The Program exposes students to basic and/or clinical research through an apprenticeship experience.
UNC-CH Pre-College Program UNC-CH Pre-college program is a selective program that strengthens students math and science abilities through special activities and lectures by college faculty during Saturday Academies.
Latest Biotechnology Headlines
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ScienceDaily A great website that allows you to read the latest science news.
Protein addressing How is a protein addressed to a specific cellular location? This article provides some of the clues.
Billionaire proposes biotech center at N.C. textile site CHARLOTTE — Two years after nearby Kannapolis was the epicenter of the largest mass layoff in North Carolina history, hope may rise from the rubble of a massive demolished plant. California billionaire David Murdock will come to town Monday to unveil plans for a biotechnology complex on the former site of Pillowtex Corp.
Live Science For the latest and coolest news in Science stay tuned to Live Science!
Student Productivity Tools
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Study Skills Help From Oakland Community College, this website has extensive links on every aspect of academic life needed for students to become successful in college.
Lifelong Learning Tools
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Mind Tools Since 1999, Mind Tools has helped improve and advance the careers of more than 8,500,000 visitors. Isn’t it time you discovered the secrets to their success? Here you'll find more than 100 essential life and career skills, freely available and outlined in easy to understand language. These skills are supported by simple examples and exercises that expand and reinforce your understanding.
Project Topics and Tools
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NoteStar NoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.
ActionBioscience SEVEN BIOSCIENCE CHALLENGES How do these issues affect your life?
Atlas of the Human Journey Explore how your human ancestors migrated across the globe.
Molecular Biology
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Cycle Sequencing Goes well with the HHMI Bacterial ID Lab - need to pause and explain critical steps.
PCR Animation Works well with HHMI's Bacterial ID Lab - explains PCR - but needs to be paused at critical steps
Complete set of animations for a quick review If you watch this series of animation, you will review much of the material that was covered in the first half of this course in an extremely abbreviated form. However, it does provide most of the essentials needed to master this half of the course.
Tour of the Basics An animated tour of the basics of the central role of DNA in the study of heredity.
HHMI BioInteractive For the advanced student, the homepage of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's BioInteractive Website. This site contains video interviews and lectures of the top biomedical scientists, animations and interactive lessons.
HHMI BioInteractive Mini-Lessons Excellent videos and animations for the advanced student of biology
Cell Biology
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Cancer Cell Biology An interactive site with animations that will allow you to explore the role of the cell cycle in explaining what happens to cells in cancers.
Cell Webquest Use this site to find the links that will help you fill out the cell worksheet we distributed in class.
Organelles in an Animal Cell For a quick but text-filled overview of the organelles found in an animal cell, check it out!
3D cell explorer Animated movies of cartoon cells
Amazing Cells Online student materials available on Learn.Gentics include: 1. Inside A Cell – interactive activity uses 3-D animations to explain organelle structure and function in animal and plant cells 2. The Fight or Flight Response – 3-D movie illustrates the multiple ways cells communicate throughout the body 3. Dropping Signals –interactive activity allows students to explore how different types of cells respond to several cell signals 4. A Cell’s Perspective – interactive activity illustrates relative scale from a coffee bean down to a carbon atom 5. And much more!
How big is a cell? This outstanding flash animation puts you in control. Zoom down from observable objects from everyday experience all the way down the size scale to an atom.
Construction of a Cell Membrane Cool fun interactive way of learning about the role of the shapes of proteins and how they can serve as gates into the cell interior.
Interactive 3D cell Interactive animated cell coupled with EM and text explanations
Chemistry of Life
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Chime based explorations of protein and nucleic acid structures Amazing visualizations of 3-D interactive molecules can be seen if you have Chime installed in your computer. Beware though, these images although beautiful and compelling are conceptually difficult to understand at the high school level.
Genetics & Heredity
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Dragon Genetics Java based program - Should work on all computers.
Understanding Genetics Comprehensive site on genetics from the Tech Museum of Innovation. The site includes "Breaking News," "Feature Stories," "Ask-A-Geneticist," and "Interactivities."
Dragon Genetics Web Lab Online version of Dragon Genetics
AMNH's Genetics Interactivities For budding CSI scientists, check out DNA Detective!
Embryology
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Carnegie Stages on Wikipedia Scroll down to the bottom of this page for links to other sites.
The Visible Embryo Highly visual depiction of embryology. Unfortunately, both the visualizations and the text is small and difficult to see and read.
Details on the Carnegies stages Highly visual. Has enough details to satisfy the most curious and advanced students.
K-12 Embryology Written for the K-12 audience. Contains a lot of detail distributed on a large number of pages.
Animation Master Sites
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Discovery Health Animations Have questions about a disease or condition? Ever wonder what effects colon cancer has on the human body? With Discovery Health's interactive, online human body atlas, you can see first-hand how over 240 diseases and disorders affect human anatomy. Our interactive human body atlas provides in-depth demonstrations of more than 240 common diseases and disorders — from HIV to diabetes to LASIK eye surgery. Not only will you learn about causes and treatments for many diseases and disorders, you can watch how they work in your own human body.
Animated Tutorials: Introductory Biology Some of the best animations for Introductory Biology
Biology I Interactive Animations The best master site of animations for Biology I.
Biology In Motion Original, entertaining, interactive biology learning activities
Science Boot Camp This site ROCKS! Comprehensive view of biology using animations from all over the world.
Cancer
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Inside Cancer A multimedia guide to cancer
Learning about specific cancers SEER's Training Web Site provides web-based training modules for understanding 15 different types of cancer.
Microscopy
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Virtual Light Microscope An laboratory grade compound light microscope with all the controls. This virtual microscope has tutorials to guide students through the use of all the controls.
Virtual Electron Microscope This site puts in at the controls of our own virtual electron microscope.
Discovery Channel's Virtual Microscope This site allows students to examine specimens and guess what they might be seeing.
Dennis Kunkel's Microscope Image Gallery Dennis Kunkel is one of my favorite electron microscopists. His images are amazing. Check them out here.
Virtual Pond Dip The tiny organisms found in pond water are fascinating subjects to study under the microscope, and can captivate both beginners and experienced microscopists for a lifetime! This virtual pond dip introduces some of the commoner types and hopefully encourages an exploration of the incredible 'world within a world' of a real pond.
Pond Life Identification Kit This site is very useful for identifying the teeny-tiny organisms that you will find during your microscope activities.
Pond Life Videos Check this site out for outstanding resources for visualizing pond organisms
Biofuel Links
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How to Grow Algae for Biodiesel A short outline of the things you need to consider if you were to grow your own algae at home.
How to Make Biodiesel at Home Nice outline of topics for your PowerPoint presentation.
Wikipedia article on growing algae Comprehensive information, but written in the typical Wikipedia style, which is a bit hard to read.
Algae species - Oil yield Start with this site to do your research on the types of algae best suited for biodiesel production.
Algaebase A professional website for conducting research on different algal strains.
Algal Image Databse For finding images of the types of algae your biofuels research might uncover.
National Renewable Energy Labs Check this website for literature describing the biofuels research the federal government is doing.
Videos on Algal Biofuels Check here to find more about the use of algae for biofuel production.
Other Alternative Fuels Videos Check this out if you are interested in other kinds of alternative energy systems.
Educational Videos
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Cracking the Code of Life Outstanding videos arranged in short clips for classroom use.
VCU Playlist of Genetic Videos From the website: "The Secrets of the Sequence Video Series offers an innovative way for teachers to incorporate astounding advances in the life sciences from gene research into their teaching. With funding from the Pfizer Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, VCU has assembled 50 of the best videos from the public television series, “Secrets of the Sequence” to assist teachers in the application of genetic research across the biology curriculum."
Just for fun
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PCR Song An incredible production number paid for by a big bucks biotech company to sing the praises of PCR.
DNA Rap Song Title says it all.
DNA Replication Song Another clever, humorous and pretty good science song
Advanced Molecular Biology
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Amgen's Angiogenesis Website Outstanding series of highly detailed visualizations of a tumor promoting the growth of blood vessels to feed the cancer. The narrative that describes the visualization is appropriate for either a high-level molecular biology college course or a first-year graduate level course.
General Biology
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Online Biology Mini-Modules Welcome to the NROC Non-Majors Biology course. This one-semester course will introduce you to the grand sweep of life on Earth and provide you with a basic understanding of the processes that shape and sustain it. You will learn about the ecological ties that bind organisms to one another and to their environment and explore the promising, perilous dance of humans and nature.

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