External links

Many topics we cover have lots of information online. Here are some links. You may find information places other than the links provided here.

Concept mapping

 

A set of instructions- This website also has many examples. Some examples were shown in class.

 

Examples where you can see the flow of information

 

How to construct a concept map

 

Another example of concept mapping. Be careful because the example does not readily show a vertical heirarchy

 

More explanations and examples of concept maps

 

 

From Monday discussions:

 

Designer Babies

Deisgner Babies article 1

article 3- many more words to explain the idea of Designer Babies

article 4

article 5

article 2: Designing babies with defects article

 

Human Cloning

UN position on human cloning

Human Cloning headlines

Artifical twinning

Therapeutic cloning

AMA statement on human cloning

How stuff works: How Human Cloning will Work

State human cloning laws

AAAS position on human cloning

Teacher lesson plan ideas on human cloning

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals position statement

Science Daily: What to do with leftover embryos?

Human Cloning and Genetic Modification

How to clone a human (humor?)

President's Council on Bioethics: Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry on human cloning

 

Stem Cell research

NIH - National Institutes of Health, US Gov't

 

Transgenic Animals

role of transgenics in research, Glaxo Smith Kline

BIO, Biotechnology Industry Organization, transgenic animals

biological safety- regulations when doing transgenic animal research

on this page is a link to a pdf copy of the NIH guidelines

 

Iceland Genetics and DeCode

Article for Monday's discussion

DeCode website- the actual company

Mapping the Icelandic Genome, Berkeley database

Links to various articles about genomic databases

Article in WIRED

deCODE genetics website- not the company website, but a website that collects links to stuff about genomic projects

The Genetic Geneologist website

Video clip: MSNBC on deCode's work

ORF genetics- company in Iceland using plants to "grow" human proteins

 

 

Nanobiotechnology

nanobiotech articles organized by a group in Germany

Nano-Bio RAISE- a watchdog group for nanobiotech issues

Nanobiotechnology center at Cornell University

Foresight Nanotechnology Institute

Nanotechnology Now- a website all about nanotechnology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory- Nanobiotechnology Initiative

 

DNA Ancestry Project

Website of the DNA Ancestry Project

Paternal lineage tests

Maternal lineage tests

Ancestry dot com articles about DNA and ancestry

Family Tree DNA

DNA Heritage- a company that will do DNA testing (this is not an endorsement of their services)

Cornell DNA ancestry project

Personal tale of finding out haplotype

DNA ancestry project for people of Germanic background

The Bahamas DNA Project

DNA Sequence website- info on Ancestry Project

Mining DNA info for evolutionary history

Native American Indian DNA heritage

MSNBC Genetic Geneology

 

DNA Testing

Articles for Jan 5:

 

Native American testing

 

Companies that do DNA testing

 

 

 

 

Online Organizations relating to Biotech or Genetics

Center for Genetics and Society- you may find this group interesting b/c they are in Oakland. You may want to check their website to see if they post internship opportunities.

 

Human Rights Center- DNA and human rights, located in Berkeley

 

Relating to labs

 

Spec 20 stuffs

Spectronic 20 lab manual from 1959

Basic guide

simple directions

This guide was written by folks at Tulane It is a pdf so you may be asked if you want to download it- it depends on your browser.

ppt presentation about how to use a Spec 21

More directions on how to use a Spec 20

A nice tutorial on the Spec 20 and what its data means

Steps to using a Spec 21

Beer's law with illustrations

 

Chromatography

Explanations from various places:

Size exclusion chromatography

Biological molecules

 

 

 

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