Books and PeriodicalsThe Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization with the goal of making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Online StudyThe Molecular
Expressions site explores the worlds of optics and
microscopy. It has a huge gallery of photographs on medical,
biological, and other topics and online tutorials in microscopy. As a computing professional who wants to continue learning, I have been using the online content at MIT OpenCourseWare. There are some fantastic materials there and and even the basic subjects are presented by some leading researchers in the field. There everything from basic biology and computer science to computational genetics. Advances in the basic science of biology is what is driving the hope for fundamental progress in health sciences. For general biology the excellent freshman textbook Life: The Science of Biology by Purves, etc at has an interesting web site at www.thelifewire.com. I thought that the interactive summaries and animated tutorials were quite original. They are mostly flash and look they took a very large amount of work to prepare. Anyway, I prefer to read books like this lying on my sofa. Also, related to general biology, The Tree of Life Web Project is a facinating s a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world to create a phylogenic tree for diversity of organisms on Earth. The project contains more than 4000 World Wide Web pages with information about evolutionary history and characteristics. Wikipedia is a revolutionary new way of combining information from multiple authors with Internet collaboration. It has been an outstanding success and is rapidly becoming one of the most definite sources of information on multiple topics anywhere. There is an entire portal devoted to medicine. A great reference for organic chemistry is Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry by William Reusch. This is a online organic textbook covering the topics in a college sophomore-level course. It features the open source three-dimensional molecule visualization tool Jmol. |
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Kenneth R. Koehler has written a freely available online text College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry at www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/text.html. For physics there is also interactive physics textbook at the University of Pennsylvania at dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/Contents.html and the Physical Sciences Information Gateway at www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/.
The Penn State Human Anatomy home page includes photos of the skeletal system, muscular system, digestive system, circulatory system, urogenital system, and nervous system.
The US National Health Museum has a page with a collection of x-rays, The Living Skeleton: a Tour of Human Bones.
Griffiths, Anthony J. F., Jeffrey H. Miller, David T. Suzuki, Richard C. Lewontin, and William M. Gelbart. An Introduction to Genetic Analysis is available online at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books (courtesy of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information). The rest of the NCBI bookshelf is at here.