Best of the web...Jim Meuninck's Favorite Web Pages Also see: Web Page of the Month
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Agriculture/Farming Related Web Sites
Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/BSE/bse.html USDA clearinghouse for Mad Cow Disease: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Plant Pest Control focus on California. www.caleppc.org
United Nations food and agriculture organization. www.fao.org
New crop on line resource. www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/home
Plants for the future. www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html
Plant pathology internet guide. www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb/ppigb.htm
Plant tissue culture information pages. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tissvult/tcintro.html
Numerous pages on antibodies: cause, effect...Allergies. www.antibodyresource.com
Allergy newswire covers what makes us ill, from nature, from our own stupidity from whatever, go see: www.allergynewswire.com
www.alzforum.org A good place to start your search into this too common disease.
Conferences and Seminars All Disciplines
This site provides information on national and international meetings. Serves: law, business, research, medicine, real estate and more: www.seminars.com
Artificial intelligence research pages: www.ai.mit.edu
Ray Kurzweil, a leading researcher in optical character recognition and reading for the blind, provides a technical and interesting description of nanotechnology, ethics, artificial life, new technology, biotechnology and more: www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0594.html
(see diseases, parasites)
Biotechnology (also see genetics and genome and evolution)
Internet directory of molecular biology and biotechnology. http://highveld.com
Yale molecular biology and biotechnology page. www.csb.yale.edu
www.bacterio.cict.fr Site for microbiologists, taxonomy (identity and information on prokaryotic organisms.
www.student.ccbcmd.edu/~gkaiser/goshp.html Learn about microbiology, beginners course and a great place to begin.
All about Monarchs, grow them, know them: www.monarchwatch.org
Ecology Society of America's EdWeb Ecology Course Syllabus Exchange: 70 ecolcogy web site links: www.science.widener.edu/~grant/esa/ecosyllabi.html
These pages are useful web sites for diet planning. You can have too little information, but not too much...
Dr. Peter D'Adamo's Diet for Blood Type: http://www.dadamo.com/
Dr. Bob Arnot's Healthwatch: http://msnbc.com/news/healthline_front.asp
Dr. Atkins diet: http://www.atkinscenter.com/
Dr. Eades and Dr. Eades protein power diet: http://proteinpower.net/
Dr. Dean Ornish: http://tvone.co.nz/health/stories/16dec1014.html
Pritikin diet: http://www.pritikin.com/ezine.html
Barry Sears Zone Diet guide to unofficial web sites: http://www.goodnet.com/~len/zonediet.htm
Cooking Web Pages Reams of Recipes from the Best
Chefs
As seen in the Wall Street Journal, November 12, 1998.These sites are favorites
of several famous American chefs: Joseph Fortunato, Scarabee Restaurant, New
York; Joe Simone, Tosca, Hingham, MA; Rick Moonen, Oceana, New York; Tim
Goodell, Aubergine, Newport Beach, CA and Troquet, Costa Mesa, CA; Art Bradley,
Cliff House, San Francisco. http://www.food.epicurious.com/
http://www.sidewalk.com/
http://www.citysearch.com
http://www.globalgourmet.com
http://www.ichef.com
http://www.fullfed.com/pastry/index.html
http://www.paula-wolfert.com
http://www.oldwayspt.org/
http://www.theatlantic.com
http://www.gourmetspot.com
http://www.starchefs.com
http://www.jamesbeard.org
http://www.cliffhouse.com
http://www.cookbook.com
http://www.digitalchef.com
http://www.foodtv.com
http://sterba.com/yountville/frenchlaundry
Clinical trials government database and links. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/r
Cornell's Geoscience Information System:
maps, satellite images, global land use projections, population etc.
www.atlas.com
Links to maps and world atlas www. worldatlas.com
World lecture hall University of Texas. www.utexas.edu/world/lecture
Virtual hospital. http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/Welcome/Welcome.html
Have a science question, then ask a scientist. These comments and questions are often heady, but worth a look. Ask a question get an answer: www.scientistsolutions.com
Here is pro insect site to help you appreciate how important they are, all of them. http://bugbios.com
Iowa State entomology Index of internet resources. www.ent.iastate.edu/List
The mosquito genomics www server. http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu
Berkeley Drosophila genome project. www.fruitfly.org
www.collembola.org Wingless hexapods? If you know what they are you are on your way there, if not, go take a look.
Environmental Activism
Love the planet? Then get busy saving it.
Environmental health, find important, relative news here: www.environmentalhealthnews.org
Potentially dangerous household items and hazardous materials www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm
Get the latest eco-action alerts and
help from numerous environmental activism groups.
www.actionnetwork.org
Write the President and save a
forest: www.wilderness.org
Save gas, save money, protect the environment,
meet new friends...Ride a bike. www.bike.org.il/taba
Park the school bus and let the kids walk to
school in small groups.
www.greenestcity.org
Clean up the world, one person, one place at a
time...It works!
www.cleanup.com.au
Save the Monarch butterflies. They need your help. www.grupo100@laneta.apc.org
Endangered species: Fish and Wildlife services list of endangered species. Facts and figures: http://species.fws.gov/
Community health watch and standards... www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/default.htm
Covers biodiversity and environmental concerns: videos, software, research news, general news. http://biodi.sdsc.edu/ei_informatics.html
Database of environmental fate of chemicals. Complex but useful database. www.esc.syrres.com/efdb.htm
FRESH WATER ISSUES:
How Chinese activists are trying to save their
fresh water resources.
www.foe.org.hk
How Minnesota's adopt a lake or river program works. www.dnr.state.mn.us/trails_and_waterways/adopt_river.html
US Environmental Protection Agency site provides ways to save water. www.epa.gov/OWOW/
Waterborne disease outbreaks and more. Numerous web links. www.worldwater.org
Fight desertification. www.gci.ch
Can we stop the Three Gorges Dam? Let's protect our rivers and watersheds. www.irn.org
Save endangered fish. Don't eat these fish. www.montereybayaquarium.org
www.leffingwell.com Discover useful information on food, flavor, aroma and perfume.
United Nations food and agriculture organization. www.fao.org
Earth Science
Cornell's geoscience infromation system: building a digital globe. Access satellite images, populations statistics, maps, land use projections and more. www.atlas.geo.cornell.edu
HIV/AIDS treatment information service. www.hivatis.org
HIV gateway to AIDS knowledge. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
AEGiS: AIDS/HIV gateway site. www.aegis.com
An extensive compilation of maps. Allows you to enter city/state/country and click to the site, much more: www.maps.com/explore
Also try: www.mapquest.com
National Geographic's MapMachine provides maps an many things, not just streets, states and continents. It includes climate maps, planet maps, railroads, the march of history etc.: www.plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine
www.xs4all.nl/-jcdverha/scijokes/index.html Good search engine for the just the right joke in your next presentation (please don't e-mail me any, please!).
National Space Biomedical Research Institute provides biological consequences of long term exposure in space micro-gravity. Covers exposure, including bone loss, cardiovascular alterations, muscle atrophy, psychological factors, radiation: www.nsbri.org
United States Government
Agencies
NIH; NCI; USDA; FDA and all others
Try this site for locating federal agencies if it is down or overloaded try the next:
Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html
One click gets directory of all WEB sites: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
Grants/Grantsmanship
Math Science Grants for educators. http://foundation.verizon.com/04010_a.html
Woodrow Wilson Science Institute provides offers residential fellowships in biological or environmental science at Princeton University. www.woodrow.org/teachers
K-12 teachers try www.schoolgrants.org
Year long fellowships for women teachers. www.aauw.org/3000/ertf.pdf
Student Scholarships. www.studentservice-awards.org
Tolerance awards, for teachers who teach tolerance. www.splcenter.org
Federal Grants for just about anything, go to www.grants.gov
Carlos and Deborah Santana's Milagro Foundation cultural enrichment grants. www.santana.com/milagro/
For grant writers seeking help in the realm of science. www.physiology.uwo.ca/SurvivalWeb/ART%20of%20grantsmanship.html
A must stop for physicians and others who want to keep up to date with the latest medical research. A rated computer desk reference. A-rated! http://www.pslgroup.com/DOCGUIDE.HTM
Poisonous Plants also see Poisonous Plants in this database
Canadian poisonous plant information system. http://res.agr.ca/brd/poisonpl
Nutrition and Food Science on the WEB
Food science www.foodfuture.org.uk Science is creating new food products including the genetic modification of food. Covers benefits and concerns.
United Nations site, easy to use database, covering food production, consumption, imports, exports and more. Good search engines. Major emphasis sustainable agriculture and food production. www.fao.org
Nutrition tips and news from Uncle Sam. http://www.usda.gov.fcs/
Food safety tips: exports, imports, in the home and at the restaurant. http://www.fsis.usda.gov/
More food safety, a different perspective: industry self regulates and finds nothing to worry about: www.ificinfo.health.org/ May be impartial but useful information.
Tufts University Nutritional Navigator good general nutrition and nutritional needs: http://www.navigator.tufts.edu/
Covers nutrition and a wide area of science; food safety, food-borne illnesses, diets, dietary guidelines. Very large coverage. www.nutrition.gov
Educational Materials for Science, Math. Etc...
www.nabt.org National Association of Biology Teachers site with educational materials and resources. Classifieds...Take a look.
Also see Free Materials
Education tips, e-zines something for all educators. www.sitesforteachers.com
Frank Potter's Science gems provides links to educational materials for the physical, earth and life sciences. Attempts to cover all grade levels. Over 14,000 links, most relevant. Worth a stop for all educators and presenters. http://sciencegems.com/
Books and resources on line covering physics, biolog and math. www.nsta.org/store
Math mind benders at... www.figurethis.org
Multi Media Educational Resources for learning and online teaching. www.merlot.org/Home.po Covers many disciplines.
A www gateway to educational materials with an emphasis on science. www.thegateway.org
Beyond discovery: the path from research to human benefit. http://www4.nas.edu/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf
Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
www.lib.duke.edu/chem/ Online resource of chemistry journals and periodicals, books.
Journal of Biological Chemistry http://www.faseb.org/asbmb/frames/abtmain.htm Research in cellular and molecular biology. A rated.
home.ici.net/~hfevans/reactions.htm Organic reactions site. Alphabetical site to chemical reactions (300 organic chemical reactions.
Sheffield ChemDex. www.chemdex.org
Great educational materials for biology, biochemistry, biotechnology. www.biochemlinks.com/bclinks/bclinks.cfm
Website on solvents (database): chemical thermodynamics: www.crct.polmtl.ca/FACT/websites.htm
Want to learn about chemistry and how it effects us? Great site about Nutrasweet, alcohol, olestra and much more...It's all chemistry, but...see: www.chemcases.com/index.htm
www.chemheritage.org Chemical Heritage Foundation web site, something for everyone: biologists, chemists, all scientists, astronomers and laypeople.
www.usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Topics.html Very effective learning site. Simply definces organic chemistry and much more.
www.bite-it.helsinki.fi What's that tooth all about, genetically speaking. Well organized with numerous links to tooth disorders.
Emerging Diseases/Parasites/Virology
Current news of emerging diseases from around the world. http://www.fas.org/promed/
Links to numerous virology pages on the WWW: www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
Parasite Genome links to parasite databases, genomes, analysis tools. Broken down by organism. www.ebi.ac.uk/parasites/parasite-genome.html
Chlamydomonas genetics center: genetic maps, algal collection links, grant opportunities and job listings. www.botany.duke.edu/chlamy/
Malaria database from WHO: www.wehi.edu.au/MalDB-www/who.html
Encyclopedia of Disease Reference: http://medlineplus.adam.com
Center for disease control and prevention. www.cdc.gov
Evolution, Psychology and Social Psychology touches on the mechanisms of evolutionary change. http://members.aol.com/jorolat/index.html
The Synthetic Theory of Evolution: great site to study evolution, covers current concepts and theories including small population effects, mutation, gene flow, recombination, Hardy-Weinberg model and more. http://daphne.palomar.edu/synthetic
Sequence analysis, bioinformatics, phylogenetic relationships: one of best sights for studying sequence analysis: www.rickhershberger.com/darwin2000/blast
Ammunition for the Evolution vs. Creationism debate is found here: www.talkorigins.org
www.fas.usda.gov/dlp/BSE/bse.html USDA clearinghouse for the disease.
Employment Opportunities in the Sciences
Chemistry jobs in US and Europe: www.chemjobs.net/
General executive and professional recruiting services for businesses, industry and higher education:
www.colorbasepair.com/index.html provides much for the life scientist including FAQs on pharmocogenetics, bioinformatics, mathematical biology, and many others including numerous web links and job opportunities.
www.nhm.ac.uk The natural History Museum, London, England. One of the best sites for lay person and scientists to get information on: botany, paleontology, entomology, zoology and more.
Neurosciences on the internet database and resource finder. www.neuroguide.com
www.wfnals.org/ Web page on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease.
I have included Sapient Health Network here because of its dedication to interaction between patients with like problems: chat groups, bulletin boards. Try their "Depression Center": http://www.shn.net
Mental Health Net is a fairly complete guide to mental health resources on the net: http://www.cmhc.com
Biology/Biodiversity
(also see Genome)
University of Michigan: Stem cells explained plus stem cell research, education, opportunities www.lifesciences.edu/index.html
Bio News site, focus on bioinformatics, great software http://bioinformatics.org
Molecular biology class on the web: includes lessons, exams etc.: www.bio.davidson.edu/Biology/Courses/Molbio/molecular.html
Theoretical biophysics; movies, links, classes, job listings, software and more worth a visit: www.ks.uiuc.edu
Association for Biodiversity Information Dedicated to developing and providing knowledge about the world's natural diversity: www.abi.org
www.natureserve.org is the online encyclopedia of life. Covers over 50,000 plants and animals. Input common or scientific name into powerful search engine.
Biolinks internet search engine: www.biolinks.com
Global hub site for the life sciences. www.biospace.com
Virtual library of developmental biology. http://zygote.swarthmore.edu www.cellsalive.com/cell_cycle.htm Cells alive is a must see, interactive web site that will expand your mind, maybe even blow it.
www.gbif.net/portal/index.jsp Over twenty million records to search...And please have something in mind and use the search engine.
www.biosingularity.wordpress.com Health information and much more, up to date, interesting and fresh.
Botanical Information on the WEB
(Also see Poisonous Plants and Emerging Diseases)
Jim Meuninck's web site for ethnobotany, nutrition, edible wild plants, edible flowers, native American Medicine: www.herbvideos.com
Internet directory of botany. www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html
California vascular plants search page well organized, easy access, geographic aids, worth a look: http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/jeps-list.html
Small ethnobotany experience from UK. www.ethnobotany.f2s.com
The Magic of Australian Native Plants. Promotes the use of Australian plants in homes and gardens: plants at risk section and seed purveyors of interest should you need Australian native plants: www.farrer.cus.edu.au/asgap
Tel Aviv U. Department of Plant Sciences Botanical Bookmarks links to herbarium sites and other botany sites worldwide: www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/botany/b_links.htm
Botanical Diversity web site. Many links to other botanical sites. Rain forest diversity. Botany tools. Outstanding site worth a visit. www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/index_e.html
American Botanical Council and Herbalgram www.herbalgram.org Medicinal herb information and research resources.
Agriculture Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
Ethnobotanical Resources provides information on how people use plants for food and medicine. Also, books and media on the topic: http://www.ethnobotany.com/
Medical Botany syllabus of U. of Maryland course: http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/syllabus/
Office of Alternative Medicine Http://altmed.od.nih.gov A Rating. Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of Health.
Parasitic plants, their botany, distribution, those researching them, dictionary, photos and DNA sequences: www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/
Ohio State University Plant dictionary. Information about plants: pests. disease, history, biology, technology, etc. www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html
Boundary Waters plant guide: Plants of the North covers both flora and fauna. www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/flora.html
Wealth of the rainforest: a focus on the Amazone rain forest, the plants and their traditional medicine uses: http://rain-tree.com
Parasitic plants database: www.omnisterra.com/bot/pp_home.cgi
Weeds that escape and become alien species, effects and cause. www.nps.gov/plants/alien
University of Wisconsin Department of Botany web site: Unique, worth a visit: http://botit.botany.wisc.edu:16080/images/130
Botany Home Page: www.nbii.gov/disciplines/botany/index.html
Do you want tilapia for your pond punch up www.cherrysnapper.com
Call Meuninck's Media Methods for two excellent ponding videos: Easy Ponding, The Basics on how to make your own pond, maintain it, filter it and care for the plants and fish in it. Also, Easy Ponding Seasonal Care...Discover how to care for your pond, pond life and plants throughout the seasons. $29.95 each $49.95 for both (800) 487-0522.
Saltwater fish superstore for marine hobbyists: www.ffexpress.com/ Great site for both fun and research.
Fish as food: USDA database on threatened species: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frfbiological.html
Scientific Research Pages and Science Journals, Magazines on the WEB
Journal Watch Online page where medical professionals can follow medical literature. Has key word search, a powerful search engine, that scans many disciplines and provides physician written, concise summaries of the most important research in the literature. Provides titles, abstracts and references. Full articles can be ordered for a fee. www.jwatch.org
Scholarly journals online database http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.htm This database has an alphabetical index of scholarly journals on line. It may be your place to start. A rated.
American scientist http://www.amsci.org/amsci/amsci.html B rating. Bi-monthly features prominent scientists and engineers reviewing research in science.
BioMedNet http://www.biomednet.com/join A rated site for discovering research articles in medicine, veterinarian medicine, alternative medicine, nutrition.
Health Scout www.healthscout.com/ A Rated: Health Scout provides daily health news, numerous links and incredibly more. Prepare to be inundated with information..
HealthMag.com. www.healthmag.com/cgi-bin/current/index.cgi Laypersons health information. Mostly accurate.
Protein Science http://www.prosci.uci.edu/ B rated. Protein research online.
Virtual Plants Www.cpitt.uq.edu.au/virtualplants/ipivp.html B Rating. Virtual plants. Three dimensional measurement and simulation of morphogenesis. Watch plants grow.
World Wide Web Journal of Biology http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/mg/wots_new.html
Genetics (also see Genome Research next)
Devoted to news on DNA, for experienced and uninitiated. www.DNA.com
Genes and Development Research http://www.genesdev.org// B rated.
National human Genome Research Center www.nhgri.nih.gov B rated.
Genetic research in Bar Harbor, Maine. Information on their research, career opportunities www.jax.org
The national Center for Genome Resources covers news, views, research, tools databases and flat file retrieval. Discover what's going on in genome research: www.ncgr.org/index.html
Here's a whole library of links in molecular biology. Good updating, relevant links, and lots of them: www.bbsrc.ac.uk/biolist.html
Mosquito genomics your bag? Then here is the site for you. Just about all you want to know about mosquitoes: http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu/
Self named: "The Internet Directory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Superb coverage with tons of links: http://highveld.com
Link to genome centers a virtual online discovery channel for molecular biology. www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/GenomeWeb
http://dodo.cpmc.columbia.edu/predictprotein Help in analyzing protein sequences. Protein sequence analysis determination: Human Genome.
Gene browser. www.genebrowser.com
GenomeNet WWW server. www.genome.ad.jp
GOLD: Genomes online database. http://216.190.101.28/GOLD
Guide to molecular sequence analysis. www.sequenceanalysis.com
National Osteoporosis foundation http://www.nof.org
Soy products and osteoporosis http://www.obgyn.net/women/articles/sooyosteo.htm
www.depts.washington.edu/bonebio/ASBMRed/ASBMRed.html All about bones, nutrition that effects them, hormones and their effects, effects of exercise and much more.
American Cancer Society WEB site www.cancer.org Daily news, research and much more.
Community approach to cancer information. www.cancerpage.com
American Association for Cancer Research presents abstracts from its four journals: http://www.aacr.org
Association of Community Cancer Centers provides has database of cancer centers in the 50 states: http://www/assoc-cancer-ctrs.org
Breast cancer and environmental risk factors in New York state. Check this site regardless of where you live: www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf
CancerGuide created by a cancer patient provides patients with insights and answers to tough questions not found elsewhere: http://cancerguide.org/
National Cancer Institute provides some of the most up to date information concerning cancer and cancer research to be found on the net: http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, grass-roots network of people and organizations who can help www.cansearch.org In English and Spanish. Search engine, research, daily news.
National Cancer Institute WEB site www.nci.nih.gov You may search worldwide for specific cancer treatments.
Fred Hutchinson cancer research center http://www.fhcrc.org/
Nutritional Research and Treatment/Prevention of cancer Http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu.utcam A rating. University of Texas nutritional research for the treatment and prevention of cancer. Abstracts of ongoing trials.
Ovarian Cancer Research notebook http://www.slip.net/~mcdavis/ovarian.html various treatments and protocols for ovarian cancer.
Soy products and treating cancer http://www.cheshire-med.com/services/dietary/nutrinew/soy.html Lymphoma research foundation of America www.lymphoma.org
The Angiogenesis Foundation www.angio.org Information on clinical trials. There are over 300 anti-angiogenesis substances that inhibit the growth of blood vessels to tumors.
Cancer Chromosome Aberration Project www.ncbi.nlm.gov/CCAP Technical be prepared to work for your discoveries. Primarily for cancer medical researchers, but give it a try.
Cancer Genome Anatomy Project Collaborations Aim is to determine the gene-expression profiles of normal, precancer, and cancer cells leading to protection, prevention, treatment. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ncicgap
Tracking cancer in a timely informative way, this site is worth a look: www.cancertrack.com
www.cancersource.com daily updated articles on well organized system to discover cancer related information.
Master WEB page to numerous arthritis WED sites to include: Doctor's guide to Arthritis Information and resources; Arthritis Net (includes free weekly arthritis news letter); Arthritis NewsBreak useful information for adults and children; arthritis foundation of Victoria for residents of Victoria BC, Canada; and various arthritis support news groups http://www.cmhc.com/guide/arthritis.htm
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Center http://pharminfo.com/disease/ra/ra-site.html Latest conventional therapies for treating arthritis. Has numerous links to arthritis WEB sites worldwide.
One of the main diabetes sites: topic pages, types of diabetes, complications, medications, monitoring and much more. Site needs updating. Try others too: www.mdcc.com/
Center for Disease Control WEB page on diabetes http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ddt/ddthome.htm
American Diabetes Association WEB page. http://www.diabetes.org
European consortium of healthcare providers and researchers focusing on diabetes care. http://www.diabcare.de/
Ecke3rd Pharmacy home page leads you to several international diabetes WEB sites. Click the following: http://www.e-pharmacy.com/ Then on the home page select: Diabetes Resources button. From the next age select Diabetes Info Online.
The Diabetes Monitor. www.diabetesmonitor.com
American Heart Association WEB page http://www.amhrt.org/ Nutrition, exercise, medical treatment and much more.
Information on heart disease including: blood pressure, diet, exercise, conventional and alternative therapies. Http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/miner/docs/pated/heart.htm
Two places to visit, discover genetics of heart disease and how genes may be manipulated to protect you: www.pga.lbl.gov and www.baygenomics.ucsf.edu
Mind blowing imaging of your organs, especially the heart. Discover what specific medical conditions look like: www.info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging
Medical Publishers of Books and CD Roms/FREE THINGS
Get free images and other free information. http://www.amazon.com
Arnold Publishers http://www.arnoldpublishing.com/ Medical books and CDs.
Aspen Publishers http://www.aspenpub.com/ Books and journals in food sciences.
Lipponcott medical journals http://www/lww.com/ Medical journals and CD roms, free medical images, medical dictionaries on CD rom, nursing books and information, veterinarian books.
Multi Media Educational Resources for learning and online teaching. www.merlot.org/Home.po Covers many disciplines.
Marine
Sciences
(also see Aquaculture)
All about kelp. Improving reference site for Macrocystis: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/kelpforest.html
www.onefish.org/global/index.jsp How long will our wild fish supplies last, where are they threatened, where are they gone. A comprehensive info rich site.
www.loseaturtles.org Endangered species found here, great site, focus on Indian Ocean, take a visit.
www.seaslugforum.net Wonderful photographs, interesting topic with human health ramifications.
www.seaaroundus.org Heady site of marine ecosystems. Excellent interactive graphics. Visual and scientific.
Discover the location of coral reefs: www.seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/landsat.pl
www.reefcheck.org help monitor and restore coral reefs. Reef check is visually appealing and effective, great place for divers, snorkelers and others who love coral reefs.
www.far.nbii.gov Fisheries and aquatic resources, full of useful information: species, databases, management issues, mapping tools, education, recreation etc.
Soy and Rice for Disease Prevention and Treatment
Soy products and osteoporosis. http://www.obgyn.net/women/articles/soyosteo.htm New research on soy products and their effects on osteoporosis.
Soy products and treating cancer http://www.cheshire-med.com/services/dietary/nutrinew/soy.html Succinct web site outlining the reported effects of soy on human health.
Soy Symposiums: role of soy protein in preventing and treating chronic disease http://www.soyfoods.com Comprehensive pages on soy foods and human health. For direct access to International Soy symposium studies: http://www.soyfoods.com/symposium/index.html
Lab Velocity provides free resources for biotechnology and life sciences: protocols, news, products, literature, tools, tables. Free downloading...great organization. www.labvelocity.com
Learn about rice, a food that help the human race profligate: www.riceworld.org
www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol Discover biological controls for your garden, lawn, arboretum. Good source for natural controls for your garden.
www.ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ Information on environmental toxicants covering diet and cancer, food safety, household hazards, indoor air pollution, pesticides, drinking water, gardening. chemicals.
University of California integrated statewide pest management project. www.ipm.ucdavic.edu
Insects and other organisms: Pest Web. www.pestweb.com/insects/index.cfm
www.buzz.ifas.ufl.edu all about stinging insects, how they evolved, and how they effect us.
www.antweb.org/index.jsp covers over 11,000 species of ants, slide shows and excellent photos bring the global impact of this genus to life.
Health Information/Vaccines/Immunizations
(PLUS: vaccinations/immunizations)
National Network for Immunization Information www.immunizationinfo.org What you need to know about immunizations. A bit pro-immunizations. Not much on alternatives.
Healthgate provides access to several medical databases to include: Medline, AIDSLine and CancerLit: http://www/healthgate.com/HealthGate/MEDLINE/search.shtml
Health A to Z searches for medical sites and has electronic bulletin boards: http://www.healthatoz.com
Johns Hopkins and Aetna team to provide information on common and not so common problems as well as a drug index...Somewhat commercial: http://www.intelihealth.com
The Mayo clinic offers focus centers on specific diseases (i.e. Alzheimers, heart disease, etc.). You may e-mail questions to the site and they will be answered and posted: http://www.mayohealth.org
Medscape is an excellent site with great content: www.medscape.com/
The New England Journal of Medicine provides abstracts of their articles and for a fee entire articles: http://www.nejm.org
Martindales health Science Guide provides links to a vast array of sites in the realms of medicine, chemistry and biotechnology. Staggering size is daunting. Hang in there. www.sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/HSGuide.html
Vaccines: Interlinked site (web ring) general and specific info on vaccines. www.vaccine.org/
Intelihealth. www.intelihealth.com
Medline provides a comprehensive database of research abstracts, over 9 million articles from over 3,800 journals: http://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/PubMed/
Herbs and Supplements (Also see Alternative Medicine)
Evidence based herbal medicine database. www.herbmed.org
Jim Meuninck's web page. www.herbvideos.com
National Institute of Health bibliography of herbs and dietary supplements. Useful and reliable information: www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/IBIDS/ P.S. Sometimes this site is crowded and you will have to log on several times to get through. Don't get discouraged.
To purchase live herbs and seeds from around the world see www.herbs.com
Wealth of the rainforest: a focus on the Amazon rain forest, the plants and their traditional medicine uses: http://rain-tree.com
Fish oil, it uses documented: www.oilofpisces.com
Agriculture Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
www.msnews.org Here's the place for answers if your or a loved one has multiple sclerosis.
Exercise/Sports/Fitness
Sportscience covers research in physical performance and exercise...Contains latest research articles, many hyperlinks to other sites, archives, good search engine, training guide, well documented: www.sportsci.org/
Netfit offers 200 fitness exercises and tests to determine exactly
how fit or our of share you are. Covers over 30 workouts, including
stretching and how to exercise all major muscle groups.
www.netfit.co.uk
www.safetyalerts.com/Default.htm
Research Aids
Web sites that help you search other web sites for scientific data.
Pub crawler scans daily updates to NCBI Medline and Genbank databases and alerts users. This is well organized and relevant information. Results can be posted to web site or e-mailed daily. Research Aids. At this date service is free. www.pubcrawler.ie
Federal Research and Development Project summaries www.osti.gov/fedrnd Federal research and development search engine: NSF, NIH, DOE.
Academic information on the web: www.academicinfo.net
Free online full text articles. http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Multi media reference library. www.med-library.com/medlibrary
Research tools for the researcher. www.nih.go.jp/~jun/research
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html Links to robotics pages, covers advances and much more.
www.gcw.nl/dryad database for identifying trees. Type in scientific name or attribute. Focus is trees in Holland.
Institute of Forest Genetics Dendrome Project http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu Contains world directory of forest genetics, newsletter, comparative genomics project, genome database for trees.
Statistics: Interactive Calculation Pages
A large set of statistics calculaitons you can download and help resolve your next research project: www.members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
Health on the Net Foundation sets guidelines for web sites to make sure they are dispensing credible information. Sites with their approval are more accurate: http://www.hon.ch
www.gene-watch.org/ the Council for Responsible Genetics....Very good newsletter.
Here's an online drug index. Very good at teasing out contraindications and safety issues. Sight has fuzzy search capability in case you misspell the drug: http://www.rxlist.com
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer Whether you are for or against drug legalization this site is very helpful and comprehensive. Legal, historical and public policy issues are covered on tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, etc...
Alternative Medicine (Also see Herbs)
Alternative medicine Directory of health Care Practitioners (incomplete listing): http://www.altmedicine.net/
American College for the Advancement of Medicine has this site to educate physicians in alternative medicine practices: http://www.acam.org/
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Asthma: http://www.camra.UcDavis.edu/
Medicine of Ancient Egypt: http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/egypt.HTM
Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ A rated. Database covering medicinal plants and their chemical constituents pulled together by Dr. Jim Duke.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: http://altmed.od.nih.gov/
Office of Alternative Medicine http://altmed.od.nih.gov A Rating. Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of Health. Discover research going on nationwide.
Wealth of the rainforest: a focus on the Amazon rain forest, the plants and their traditional medicine uses: http://rain-tree.com
Understanding Alternative Medicine: Healthworld online: http://www.healthy.net/
University of Texas Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer: http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/
Wellness Web has both alternative and conventional medicine news and views: http://www.wellweb.com
Use of herbs and nutritional supplements to treat common ailments. By medical professionals, dosage charts, dietary instructions. Searchable by ailment. www.wholehealthmd.com
Ethics (animal rights, environment, abortion, sexual orientation, reproduction)
Updates and references new material, much of which is hyperlinked: case studies, discussion. Well done. http://ethics.acusd.edu/
The Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. Covers impact of technology on biology. Pop up menu leads user to specific needs: www.med.upenn.edu/~bioethic/
Gardening/Flowers/Plant Pathology: Live Plants & Seeds
Richter's: Go to www.herbs.com this is Richter's The Herb Specialists Web site. Richter's has all your gardening needs: herbs from around the globe: culinary, medicinal, heritage plants. Also, books, videos, software and much more. Check out the web site and get a catalog.
www.garden.com claims 24 hour care service to plan, nurse and maintain your garden. Landscape design, pruning techniques, frost damage, fertilizing plus 20,000 plants and plant products.
www.homestead.com helps with web site design, hosting with special attention to gardeners, homesteaders, country life.
Database of gardening sites and info. www.gardeninglaunchpad.com
Flowering plant gateway from Texas A&M good source of info on flowering plants. www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm
Plant pathology internet guide. www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb/ppigb.htm
www.RTIalert.com Sponsored by Bayer aspirin...Online forecasts of respiratory tract infections...Forecasting the diseases and timing their arrival in your neighborhood.
Weather Planner provides fairly accurate long range weather predictions. www.weatherplanner.com
Women in biology, organizations, history, affirmative action, career advice, job listings, great articles: http://pingu.salk.edu/~forsburg/bio.html
Take a look at yourself 3D...The visible human: www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visile_human.html
Love your mouse, the three legged one running through your house. See her anatomy in 3D: http://mouseatlas.caltech.edu/home.html
www.link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm Almost 5000 anatomical illustrations from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Plates were drawn between 1522 to 1867.
Is there life on other planets? What do we know? http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov
Teaching Resources Science
Teaching Virtual Classroom in biology. Can the Web replace teachers: www.vcbio.sci.kun.ni/eng
A site for those who don't know shit. All about coprolites, latrines, middens, parasites and pollens: www.scirpus.ca/dung/dung.shtml
Future Shock Where is Earth Headed!
Phrenicea is a future look site. Take a trip into the future, discover the consequences of cybertechnology and bioengineering and more: www.phrenicea.com
Web Search Resources to Science Sites
www.aldea.com/guides/ag/attframes2.html Links to numerous academic and non academic science related sites.
Bi weekly reports from the web on life and physical sciences, math, engineering and technology: www.scout.cs.wisc.edu
www.biologybrowser.org fun and easy to use site that zips your to a broad array of science sites on the web
Links to online search engines for patent searches and writing patents, registering them, etc.: www.-sul.stanford.edu/debts/swain/patent/pattop.html
Find the top 100 carnivorous plants sites go to: www.carnivorousplants.com
www.nature.com/bioent Free access to bioentrepreneurship.
www.sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/menu_sickle.html is an excellent resource on the disease, past, present and future looks.
Where science and fiction hit the road, this site is a big and clever and fun, go there: www.technovelgy.com
Science Blogs
www.scienceblogs.com Great science news site, obscure and unusual coverage. Need a cocktail hour topic, go here.
www.bioboom.blogspot.com Biotech stocks and much more.
Cats/Dogs
www.ckwri.tamuk.edu/feline/Default.asp Research and information on cats...all cats: bobcats, lions, tigers etc. Love cats? You'll like this site.
Treating cancer in dogs www.cellbiol.com
www.photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/photoweb/default.html Great coverage on a topic we should all understand and marvel at.
www.tncweeds.ucdavis.edu Nature Conservancy invasive species site with red alerts for both animal and plant species.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/1410 Projects and experiments for high school and college students.
www.molo.concord.org NSF project that should stimulate students.
www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum Striking photographs, facts, fancy and fiction about bioluminescent organisms. Have some fun, go there.
www.firstscience.com/site/home.asp Read a poem a week, a book a week and numerous science articles. Visual, entertaining and informative.
www.world-science.net Late breaking science news at your fingertips.
www.lifescience.com Excellent source of science headline news.
Endocrinology and Hormones
www.endotext.org articles on adrenal disease, diabetes, pituitary disease and thyroid problems: referenced articles, timely and informative.