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Education Resources

Last Updated 13th July 2004

This list does not attempt to cover everything but we think these are extremely useful sites for students, teachers and the general public

Database	Address	Curator
Access Excellence- Various resources	http://www.accessexcellence.org/	The National Health Museum USA
BEN: BioSciednet.org: A digital Library of the Biological Sciences for Biology Teaching	http://biosciednet.org/portal
Genetics: Educational Information on the American Society of Human Genetics homepage (also includes career information)	http://www.faseb.org/genetics/careers.htm	ASHG
Gene Almanac	http://vector.cshl.org/
DNA from the beginning- An animated primer on the basics of DNA, Heredity & Genetics	http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/
DNA Interactive	http://www.dnai.org/index.htm	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, & cold Spring Harbour Lab, USA
A Science Odyssey: You Try It: DNA Workshop (requires shockwave)	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/#
Exploring Our Molecular Selves-Education Kit	http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/educationkit/	NHGRI, NIH, U.S.A
Basics of DNA Fingerprinting	http://www.biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html	Kate Brinton and Kim-An Lieberman
The Human Genome Project Information	http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/	U.S. Dept. of Energy
THCME Medical Biochemistry Page (huge collection of background info on a variety of topics such as amino acid metabolism, neuotransmitters, glycolysis)	http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html	Michael W. King, Indiana State University, USA
Understanding Basic Genetics- a series of links to basic education sites (also links to other topics such as Biotechnology, Cloning, Disease & Illness)	http://genetics.about.com/science/genetics/cs/basicgenetics/ index.htm	Laura J. Jelliffe