Biology: Internet Sites

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Overview of human genes and associated diseases.

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

US National Science Foundation (NSF).

The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research.

Searches over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

The Biological Resources Discipline (BRD) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) works with others to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the sound management and conservation of the nation's biological resources.

Environmental health and medicine education.

Collection of peer-reviewed cell images, video clips, and digitized texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life.

University of Arizona.

Information and links to validated sites about brain diseases and disorders. Updated quarterly.

Harvard University Library.

"Grades for health news reporting"

The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Non-profit organization advancing research, policy, and clinical models that assure patients are fully informed and involved in decisions that affect their health and well-being.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

From the Association of American Medical Colleges. A free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources.

Medline Plus

Diversity, ecology and evolution of the microbial world

From the publishers of Nature magazine. Not all content is free.

A scientific organization run by paleontological researchers from around the world, bringing together taxonomic and distributional information about the entire fossil record of plants and animals.

An international news portal, specialised in delivering breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries.

Museum of Paleontology, University of California.

A non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology: understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.

Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia, and the University of Utah, Eccles Health Science Library. Over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.

Summaries of research in various areas.

Oregon State University.