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Bitter taste and receptor links
PCR
Replication
Bradford Assays
Spectrophotometers
PowerPoint suggestions and ideas
Genetically Modified Organisms
BioFuels
Alu
buttermilk info
Fankhauser's Cheese Page
Fankhauser making root beer at home
Fankhauser's Rennet page
milk ferments
CA milk board cheese factoids
Midvalleyvu Family Farms- buttermilk
Methylene blue staining
White Labs pictures of yeast
What is yeast?
Gram stains
Photos of how to do a gram stain
Gram stain explained with video
Animation of gram stains and how they work
Dairy Bacteria
Fermented Dairy Products
Types of Cheeses and Organisms used in Ripening
Even though it is not a peer-reviewed site, this one seems straightforward about how to make buttermilk
Kitchen Cheese
NY Times article on making cheese
Whole Foods Market info about cheese
Bacterial cells
Cells Alive
Encycolpedia Brititanica Bacterial Cells
Online Textbook of Bacteriology
Streptococcus lactis
Yeast cells
about Baker's yeast life cycle
What is yeast?
Baker's yeast cells
Yeast Cell Architecture and Function (pdf)-
Horst Feldmann
Adolf-Butenandt-Institute
University of Munich
2005
Yeast molecular biology
Fermentation
Lactic acid fermentation
making Tempeh
foods made by fermentation
An explanation
From "How Stuff Works?"
article about fermented foods (pdf)
Notes from a class about fermentation in the food industry (pdf)
Rennett
a cheesemaking company's explanation of rennet
Vegetarian Society's point of view on rennett
Trader Joe's list of cheeses and rennet
from "How Stuff Works?"
Interesting websites
Science Now is a PBS show that does short segments on really cool science things. These links go to some of the pages that cover things that may be useful to our class.
1918 Flu
Anthrax Investigation
Capturing Carbon
Epigenetics
First Primates
Fuel Cells
Killer Microbe
Lab Meat
Marathon Mouse
Pandemic Flu
Personal DNA Testing
Profile: Maydianne Andrade- studies spider sex
Profile: Bonnie Bassler- bacteria talk
Profile: Sangeeta Bhatia- creates tiny livers on computer chips
Profile: Judah Folkman- cancer growth
Profile: Naomi Halaas- nanobiotechnology
Profile: Pardis Sabeti- evolution of the human genome
RNAi
Science of Picky Eaters
Stem Cells (2005)
Stem Cells Breakthrough (2008)
Stem Cells Update (2006)
Current Science Events/ Current Science News
From Science Now
From DNALC
Science Daily
Science News
From MSNBC
From Scientific American
Science magazine, AAAS
NSTA WebNews Digest
CSTA current news
Nature magazine
Online Resources for Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
PLOS biology
PLOS genetics
PLOS neglected tropical diseases
PLOS medicine
PLOS computational biology
PLOS pathogens
PLoS Currents: Influenza
Open - JGate- if you get an article from here, make sure you only search peer reviewed journals
Websites with information about how to do citations and/or online research
UC Berkeley
West Texas A&M University
Internet Public Library
Purdue
National Library of Medicine
How to properly use a lab notebook- I did not write any of these. The links are here so you can get an idea of what other scientists, universities, or companies expect their scientists to do.
Truman Chemistry Lab
The Book Factory Lab Notebook Guidelines
A Physics Example
A Lab Notebook Guide (pdf)
Rice University- a guide for chemistry notebooks
University of Utah- Electrical and Chemical Engineering Department
A Condensed Version of Lab Notebook Rules (doc)
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Visualizing molecules
VMD- a powerful program that lets you "play" with images of molecules
PDB- protein data bank
Link to Molecule of the Month page
Genetically Modified Organisms
GMO Compass- lists what is going on in many countries with various GMO crops
An extensive list of links related to genetically modified organisms and related biology topics
Africa rice center
The Council for Biotech Information- Why Biotech?
Biofuels
CropLife- biofuel basics
NREL- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
article about using microbes in termite guts to gather enzymes
Ethanol producer magazine
Renewable energy world
Bradford Assays
An explanation
Manual on protein assays
MATC protocol for Bradford Assay
Background information for Bradford Assays
pdf for a Spectroscopy lab doing the Bradford Assay
Example lab 2
If you really want to make your brain squish, try understanding this explnation
pdf from a company that makes Bradford Assay kits (Promega)
pdf of a Bradford Assay done by scientists at USDA
This site explains which amino acids Bradford reagent likes
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Spectrophtometers
Voice Thread- online discussions
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Powerpoint suggestions and tips
Technical Writing
How to write a research report
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Replication
Replication animations at DNA interactive
Animation with written explanations
Animations made by folks at Harvard
Animation that labels the major players: helicase, DNA pol III, DNA pol I, RNA primers
Another Animation- you control how fast it goes by clicking to advance
Lagging Strand animation- emphasizes the formation of Okazaki fragments
A flash animation where you can step through the process to see how each replication fork has a leading and a lagging strand
McGraw-Hill narrated
PCR animations
dnalc animation 1
Sumanas Inc
list of links at the Utah genetics website
PCR and real-time PCR
narrated animation
simple animation
from Nobelprize.org
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Bitter taste and receptor links
Information at the Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center
Restriction Enzymes
The history of Restriction Enzymes
Alu
DNALC pages
