Remember our old site?
Well we couldn’t let that library of links go to waste!
Instructional
- Bioteach – AMBL, the Educational Facilities of the Michael Smith Labs
- Biomedia Database – over 3000 microscopy images and videos
- BiteSize Bio – articles and seminars from researchers and experts
- Digital World Biology – interactive online stuff about life sciences
- HHMI Biointeractive Virtual Lab – exactly what it sounds like: interactive biomedical laboratory simulations
- Molecular Biology Gateway – another page stuffed with links, exactly what you need
Disease Information
- Bad Bug Book – a huge list of microorganisms that could make you sick… or worse
- CDC Diseases and Conditions – search on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC Bioterrorism – info on biological threats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Medscape Infectious Diseases – news and perspectives from a medical point of view
- NIAID Pathogen Genomics – research with advanced technologies to prevent infectious and immune-mediated diseases
Research Resources
- Elsevier
- NCBI
- NCBI Bookshelf
- PubMed
- Science Direct
- Scirus Science Search Engine
- UBC Library e-Journals
UBC Links
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology – our beloved department
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Department of Medical Genetics
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Michael Smith Labs – Canada’s first interdisciplinary research unit
- UBC Science Co-op – practical work experience related to your studies
Organizations
- American Society for Microbiology – the oldest and largest life sciences membership organization in the world
- American National Standards Institute – setting norms and guidelines
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – saving lives, protecting people, saving money through prevention
- Health Canada – the Federal department responsible for you not being able to walk 2 flight of stairs
- National Institutes of Health – turning discovery into health
- Pan American Health Organization – international health organization of the Americas
- World Health Organization – international health organization of… the world
Biotechnology Firms
- Angiotech – specialty pharmaceutical and medical technologies
- Genentech (Roche) – medicines to treat life-threatening conditions
- Inimex – Innate Defense Regulators
- Invitrogen – mega-supplier of laboratory materials
- Medwell Capital – various financial advising
- Qiagen – sample and assay technologies
- QLT – ocular products
- Sembiosys – plant biotechnology company
- Tekmira Pharmaceuticals – RNAi research and products
- TerraBioGen Technologies – environmental biotechnology
News
- New Scientist – science news and jobs
- Science AAAS – up to the minutes news and features from Science
- Science Daily – news and articles in science, health, environment, and technology