Monthly Archives: October 2011

DNA — Secrets of the Sequence

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Secrets of the Sequence

http://www.sosq.vcu.edu/

“If you are look­ing to get in on the ground floor of the DNA sequenc­ing that occurs in a high-tech lab­o­ra­tory, this video series is a fine place to start. Pro­duced with help from a vari­ety of spon­sors, such as the National Acad­e­mies and Pfizer, this site from Vir­ginia Com­mon­wealth Uni­ver­sity brings together 50 of the best videos from the pub­lic tele­vi­sion series “Secrets of the Sequence” to “assist teach­ers in the appli­ca­tion of genetic research across the biol­ogy cur­ricu­lum.” Each of the videos is 8–10 min­utes long, and they are divided into top­i­cal areas that include anatomy, bioethics, and DNA. Vis­i­tors can down­load each video, or just stream them directly from the site. Finally, the site also includes a num­ber of help­ful edu­ca­tional work­sheets and guides for teachers.”

Source:  The Scout Report, Univ. of Wis­con­sin, Oct. 28, 2011 

Microbe World — Website with news, videos, images…

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Microbe World (Last reviewed in the Scout Report on Novem­ber 19, 1999)

http://www.microbeworld.org/

“Microbe World has grown by leaps and bounds since the Scout Report last reviewed the site. First-time vis­i­tors will notice that the home­page con­tains a fea­tured image and a fea­tured video, which usu­ally fea­tures a sci­ence expert speak­ing on microbes via an archived web­cast. Mov­ing on, the right-hand side of the home­page con­tains infor­ma­tional videos that cover how to get started with using Microbe World. The “Videos” tab will allow users to learn from dozens of videos that cover a gamut of top­ics, such as genet­i­cally engi­neered bac­te­ria and an inves­ti­ga­tion into the ori­gins of the Black Plague. Vis­i­tors can also use the “Images” tab to view high qual­ity images of microbes taken from var­i­ous research lab­o­ra­to­ries, sci­ence orga­ni­za­tions, and so on. Finally, users can use the “Resources” area to view lab­o­ra­tory demon­stra­tions and find out about new microbe-related apps that are under development.”

Source: Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin’s Scout Report 10/21/11 

MeSH, Medical Subject Headings from NLM (National Library of Medicine)

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MeSH is a great resource,a the­saurus, espe­cially sig­nif­i­cant if you access Med­line – from what­ever source.  (PubMed is the free ver­sion, acces­si­ble every­where any­one has access to the internet.)

MeSH means Med­ical Sub­ject Headings.  They are assigned by index­ers at the National Library of Med­i­cine.  This the­saurus is com­plete with def­i­n­i­tions or scope notes.  It is orga­nized in a hier­ar­chi­cal fash­ion so that if you wanted to search all antibi­otics, for exam­ple, you wouldn’t have to sep­a­rately type all of them, but could just “explode” the main heading.  You can limit the head­ings to a major con­cept, the most impor­tant concept(s) in the arti­cle.  You can also attach sub­head­ings, such as adverse effects of antibi­otics.

 

ChemMobi, A free APP from RSC! It’s National Chemistry Week!

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“Chem­istry: There’s An App For That

National Chem­istry Week, Oct. 16–22: There’s an App for that. Chemists on the go can check the safety of cos­metic ingre­di­ents, scroll through mil­lions of chem­i­cal struc­tures and mol­e­c­u­lar for­mu­las, and model liq­uid chro­matog­ra­phy flow rates.”

Pro­vided by the Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry and Symyx Technologies.

http://iyc2011.acs.org/2011/10/16/chemistry-theres-an-app-for-that/#.Tp3XZQ7LzrI.facebook

Sub­mit­ted by Anne Lan­g­ley, Oct. 18, 2011

CORDIS — European repository & portal for EU research

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News from the Frank­furt Bookfair

…“Addi­tion­ally, the EU’s Pub­li­ca­tions Office offered a dis­cus­sion of CORDIS, the pri­mary repos­i­tory and offi­cial dis­sem­i­na­tion por­tal of EU-funded research projects and results. Its pre­sen­ta­tion sought to answer the ques­tion, ‘How do we find the best part­ners for new research projects?’ The pre­sen­ta­tion demon­strated CORDIS’ new inter­ac­tive plat­form for fos­ter­ing cross-European part­ner­ships in research includ­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive tools, RSS, blogs and online com­mu­ni­ca­tion with spe­cial empha­sis on cur­rent social net­work­ing trends.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.

GEN — “Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News” turns 30!

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New Rochelle, NY, Octo­ber 3, 2011– Genetic Engi­neer­ing & Biotech­nol­ogy News (GEN) cel­e­brates 30 years as the world’s first and most widely read mag­a­zine for the biotech­nol­ogy indus­try.  Uni­ver­sally her­alded as the defin­i­tive infor­ma­tion source in this field, GEN cov­ers the tech­nol­ogy, trends, prod­ucts, ser­vices, and advances that shape and drive the indus­try for­ward.  GEN’s 130-page com­mem­o­ra­tive issue fea­tures arti­cles writ­ten by lumi­nar­ies, and an orig­i­nal poster that tracks the mile­stones that have altered the course of biotech­nol­ogy, lead­ing to today’s most ground­break­ing sci­en­tific and ther­a­peu­tic discoveries.

Mary Ann Liebert news email 10/3/11