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Links Inspiring videos of molecules and cells Biochemistry has gone Hollywood at Molecularmovies.org and the DNA Learning Center. Astonishing animations of, for example, what a cell surface might look like. Similarly, replicating DNA movie, complete with squelching sounds. And a catalogue of real videos of cellular processes from the Journal of Cell Biology. Bacterium with a neutrophil in hot pursuit. Highly recommended. Imagine the Benny Hill theme as the soundtrack. How to make Quantum Dots: a dramatic trailer from my former collaborator in the Bawendi lab at MIT. Light-control of protein function and cell movement: using red or blue light and directing cell migration in an animal. Imaging voltage changes in a beating heart using fluorescent reporters See individual red and white blood cells, flowing through the tail of a zebrafish "Real-time" protein structure determination as a walking motor is imaged by AFM Chemical biology Oxford University chemical biology programme, (see also Oxford Biomedical Imaging Network, Advanced Microscopy Unit and Systems Biology) A video of an oscillating reaction In the Pipeline blog on chemistry and drug discovery PubChem- a site from NIH where you enter your compound of interest and it gives you structures, references, and similar compounds. Stitch- from EMBL displaying all the protein interactions of a given drug Journalism and the public understanding of science Wow!How? science fair, as part of Oxfordshire Science Week, where with some of my lab we showed school children how to extract DNA from strawberries (e-mail for simple instructions). Also see Howtoons. Bad Science: also a column in the Guardian, challenging and making fun of pseudoscience and misrepresented science that is presented at fact on TV and in other newspapers. From clustered water to underpowered clinical trials, this is both fun and important. Avant-garde chefs discuss cooking with Harvard engineers The War on Cancer- a fascinating article by a journalist on how the interests of bench scientists, the needs of pharmaceutical companies, and the organization of clinical trials don't always meet in the best place for the patient. The Real Function of the Immune System- a friendly introduction to the Danger Model by Polly Matzinger, an alternative and controversial view on how the immune system can decide what to attack and what to leave in peace. Whether you believe the theory or not, she has an extraordinary ability to get people excited about immunology. Discovering new life in the secondary school classroom- isolation of novel phage by teenagers. The Diamond Age- you need to read this novel brilliantly imagining a future built on nanotechnology, where children are accompanied by computerised teachers.
The
Real Reasons for loving chocolate- an article I wrote many
years ago for a
science writing competition in the Daily Telegraph, about finding neuroactive
chemicals in chocolate. Original Nature paper from Piomelli lab More recent review on chocolate addiction
Online Seminars Fly-on-the-wall documentary on a graduate student's struggles and successes in research (from Columbia).
See the lectures you weren't able to go to: Oxford iTunes- podcasts and videocasts from Oxford University TED.com- George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp MIT (Howard Zinn, Stephen Wolfram) Harvard YouTube channel Henry Stewart Talks (series of teaching lectures from famous people in different biological areas). NIH (Chad Mirkin, Stefan Kaufmann inspiring talk on a new TB vaccine, Lichtman on the brainbow) Princeton (Matt Ridley, James Randi, Daniel Liebeskind, and the author of Freakonomics) Caltech (how flies fly) American Chemical Society webcasts from recent conferences The Royal Institution (Harry Kroto, Maynard Smith)
The Age of AIDS: a remarkable series of documentaries from the Public Broadcasting Service on the history of HIV, from the molecular discoveries, to the impact on the sufferers, to the global politics of dealing with such an epidemic.
Also, see MIT OpenCourseWare, which freely distributes MIT teaching resources including lecture slides, reading lists, and problem sheets of courses from Mechanics to Epidemiology
Searches US patents- Google Patents is the easiest for searching and downloading; Freshpatents is best for following newly released patents in molecular biology. Bill Gates Grand Challenges in Global Health: including grants awarded in 2011. Get thinking... Toolkit to build your own organism: Registry of Standard Biological Parts |
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