Dr. Brow's Favorite Web Sites are listed below:
Alberts, et. al Molecular Biology of the Cell 4th Ed.
Many references in Dr. Brow's Module 2 come from this book.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
This page is maintained by a large biotechnology firm called Genentech.
"Access Excellence" is their public relations/education tool. The "About
Biotech" page is the most useful for Module 2. Check out the "Graphics
Gallery" and the "Issues" pages.
http://opa.faseb.org/pdf/PolymeraseChainReaction.pdf
This page is maintained by the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology (FASEB), a non-profit professional organization. They
produce articles on breakthroughs in science for general audiences. This
one describes the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) uses a huge bequest from the
aviation entrepreneur to support biomedical research and education. They
have produced this very readable booklet on applied human genetics.
This is the homepage for the U.S. government's Human Genome Project, run by
the NIH and DOE. It is more technical than the other web pages listed
above, but has some useful basic information.
The "Your Genes Your Health" web site is run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
It provides information on a variety of common inherited diseases.
Media resources for Bichemistry, 5th Edition by Stryer et al.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/snps.html
A primer on SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) put together
by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
This is relevant to the Human Genetic Typing Lab.
This web site is hosted by the Children's Hospital of Oakland and provides
a comprehensive description of thalassemia, a hemoglobinopathy.
The Merck Manual is my favorite source for general clinical information.
This page contains a "talking glossary" of genetic terms, compiled by National Human Genome Research Institute.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink
This is the "LocusLink" web site hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which are affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). You can look up information on known human genes at this site."The International HapMap Project" website: An alternative SNP database run by The SNP Consortium.
Please email your suggestions for additional appropriate Module 2 web links to me at dabrow@wisc.edu.
last updated 8/29/07 VH