General Resources and Tutorials
Basic Introductions and Tutorials
While many of the resources listed on these pages are for scientists or advanced
students, resources that require little or no background
are labeled as Beginner's Level.
For an extensive collection of dictionaries, including scientific and medical,
see Open Directory:
Reference: Dictionaries.
- Access Excellence - A lot
of information on biology and biotechnology for students and teachers. (Genentech)
(Beginner's Level)
- Biochemistry
Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic - Biochemistry within the
framework of chemical principles and logic. (Henry Jakubowski, College of
St. Benedict/St. John's University)
- Biofundamentals (Beginner's Level)
- Biology Online - Basic biology
tutorial, dictionary and links. (Beginner's Level)
- The Biology Project - Tutorials
on most areas of modern biology, including major subjects of cell biology.
(University of Arizona) (Beginner's Level)
- BioMEDIA Galleries
- This site includes graphics of cellular processes and images of protists.
(Beginner's Level)
- BioVisa.net - Biological Web portal. (Beginner's
Level)
- Bugs in the News!
- Answers to a lot of biology questions you might have wondered about since
you were a kid or things you might have heard about but were afraid to ask
- there's a section entitled "What the heck is...?" (John Brown,
University of Kansas) (Beginner's Level)
- Cell Biology Laboratory Manual
- Information for instructors and students of cell biology. (Beginner's
Level)
- Cell Biology Web Pages
- Excellent text- and image-based overview of cell and organelle structure
and function. (Gwen V. Childs, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
(Just above Beginner's Level)
- Cell Biology.com - Overview of
cell biology. (Altruis Biomedical Network) (Beginner's
Level)
- CELLS Alive! - Images of cells
doing cellular things. (Beginner's Level)
- The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
- "It is intended to provide quick access to easily-understood and cross-referenced
definitions of terms frequently encountered in reading the modern biology
literature." (Useful for all levels)
- Dr. NAD's
Cell Science Links - A collection of cell biology links for students at
all levels. (Beginner's to Advanced Levels)
- EverythingBio.com - General biology resource. (Beginner's
Level)
- HHMI's BioInteractive - A "collection
of biology-focused teaching materials" with animations, lectures, mini-lessons,
a virtual museum, video clips and "Ask a Scientist" to get answers
to biology questions. (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) (Beginner's
Level)
- Histology-World - "This
site includes histology quizzes, histology games, slides, mnemonics, histology
puzzles, audio slides and lots of information about histology."
- The History of
Cell Biology
- The
JayDoc HistoWeb - "Histology atlas that corresponds with the laboratory
exercises of the Cell & Tissue Biology course of the School of Medicine
of the University of Kansas."
- Kimball's
Biology Pages - A comprehensive online biology textbook. (Beginner's
Level)
- The Mad Scientist Network - If you have
a question in any area of science, including cell biology, and wish to have
it answered by a specialist, go here. (Beginner's Level)
- The Medical Biochemistry
Page - An excellent biochemistry tutorial with information on a broad
range of biochemical pathways. (Michael W. King, Terre Haute Center for Medical
Education, Indiana University School of Medicine)
- Microbiology
Textbook: The World of Microbes - Everything you always wanted to know
about microbes. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) (Beginner's
Level)
- Microbiology Video
Library - Quicktime movies, some of which are relevant to cell biology,
such as a phagocytosis sequence and another showing cytoplasmic streaming.
(Beginner's Level)
- MIT Biology Hypertextbook -
A general tutorial on biochemistry, genetics and molecular and cell biology.
(Beginner's Level)
- Molecular Biology Web Book
- Introduction to molecular and cell biology. (Just
above Beginner's Level)
- National Institutes of Health
Office of Science Education - Free resources for science teachers at
elementary, secondary and college/university levels.
- On-Line
Biology Book - Comprehensive introduction to biology at the "college
freshman" level by M.J. Farabee. (Beginner's Level)
- ScienceIQ.com - "We deliver
fascinating and engaging science facts daily to your email, and offer an extensive
science facts online archive." (Beginner's Level)
- Virtual Cell - A collection
of still images, texts and movies covering the structure and functioning of
a typical plant cell. (Beginner's Level)
- The Visible Embryo
- Visual and textual presentation of early human development from egg to birth.
(Beginner's Level)
- A Web Atlas of Cellular
Structures (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) (Just above
Beginner's Level)
- Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
with basic overviews. (Beginner's Level)
- WWW Cell Biology Course
- A comprehensive basic online course in cell biology. (Beginner's
Level)
- Zygote - Wonderful resource
devoted to developmental biology for people at all levels, with a lot of information
pertinent to cell biology. (Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College) (Beginner's
to Advanced Levels)
Miscellaneous Resources with Relevant Biological or Biomedical Content
- Atlas of Hematology - Images
of blood cells (neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, megakaryocytes,
erythrocytes, etc.) in normal and pathological states. (Nivaldo Medeiros)
- Faculty of 1000 - "Faculty of 1000 Biology and Medicine are authoritative online services in which almost 5,000 leading researchers and clinicians share their expert opinions by highlighting and evaluating the most important articles in biology and medicine." (Biology Reports)
- Journal Club on the Web - An
interactive medical "journal club" with summaries and comments
on articles from the recent medical literature and feedback from
readers.
- Knowledge Updates - "MIT
Knowledge Updates are educational briefings on life science topics. Each
Knowledge Update offers key industry information, articles and resources,
and a video presentation by an MIT professor to help academics and professionals
get up to speed quickly on complex topics."
- Medscape - Portal and information
resource site for medical professionals.
- Molecular Immunology - Hierarchical
information source on molecular immunology with definitions, descriptions,
images and links. (Daniele Focosi)
- Molecular Medicine - Hierarchical
information source on molecular medicine with definitions, descriptions,
images and links. (Daniele Focosi)
- Protist
Image Data (PID) - A site that "provides pictures and short descriptions
of selected protist genera, especially those genera whose species are
frequently used as experimental organisms or are important in studies
of organismal evolution."
(University of Montreal, Canada)
- Siphs - "A free social networking
and social bookmarking service for researchers in the life sciences."
- Tissue Engineering Pages -
"In 1995 the Tissue Engineering Pages were initiated as a first information
website for people interested in Tissue Engineering. [...] The Tissue Engineering
Pages provide up to date information on conferences, organizations as wells
as international tissue engineering projects." (Michael Sittinger, Laboratory
for Experimental Rheumatology and Tissue Engineering, Medical Faculty Charité,
Berlin, Germany)
Other Specialized Web Directories or Search Engines
- About.com: Biology
- All the Virology
on the WWW - An extensive catalog of resources devoted to virology as
a whole and also to individual viruses; many of these resources are highly
relevant to cell biology. (David Sander, Tulane University)
- AllRefer
Reference and Encyclopedia Resource
- Awesome
Library - Science - Biology - Directory of educational sites. (Useful
for all levels)
- BioChemHub - Links to educational resources
in biology and chemistry. (Dyann Schmidel)
- BioLinks - Portal for the biology
community.
- Biomechanics World Wide
- Resources in biomechanics, both organismal and cellular/subcellular.
- BioScience Research Tool -
Links to many online resources.
- Biotaq.com - Biotechnology information
and links.
- The Bio-Web - Comprehensive collection
of important links in biology, including sequence and data analysis, journals
and research institutions. (Andrea Cabibbo, Molecular Immunology Unit, San
Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)
- Biowww.net
- Cell and Molecular Biology Online -
Links to a large number of resources in cell and molecular biology.
- Community of Science - A "global resource
for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects
across all disciplines."
- LifeSciencesWorld
- MedBioWorld - An extensive medical
and bioscience reference and resource directory.
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource
for Learning and Online Teaching) - A "free and open resource
designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to
online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such
as peer reviews and assignments."
- The Molecular Biology Directory -
A gateway to Web resources for molecular biology, genetics, microbiology
and biochemistry.
- Molecular Biology Search Engine
- A search engine that searches a range of Web sites devoted to molecular
biology and related fields.
- Open Directory Project
- Physico-Chemical
Biology - Selected Scientific Journals - Collection of links to selected
scientific journals and free resources (in English and Russian). (Vladimir
Melgunov, Moscow State University)
- Scirus - "Scirus, the search engine
for science, focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content."
- The Scout Report
- Weekly reviews of Web resources in the natural and social sciences (reviewed
by professionals at the University of Wisconsin and partly sponsored by the
NSF).
- Yahoo! Science: Biology
- Yahoo! links to biology resources.
Scientific Web Magazines
Discussion Groups
- Usenet newsgroup archives
- Molecular Station Forum -
"Discussion forum to post questions and receive help for molecular biology
protocols, methods and techniques."
- NIH LISTSERV - E-mail lists served by
the NIH list server.
- Scientist Solutions - An
"internet discussion site or "Board" to provide scientists
a resource for the exchange of ideas and information" in "21 categories
of scientific disciplines that are further divided into discussion forums."
