Biosciences

Open Courseware and Resources

- Biology: natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
(Wikipedia)

Biosciences - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • Centre for Bioscience, Higher Education Academy (UK) - supports network of learning and teaching practitioners involved in HE bioscience, initiate gather and disseminate examples of good practice in learning teaching and assessment: Events & Themed work, Resources & Publications, Funding & Recognition, Networks, Bioscience Departments, Staff & Educational, Support for New Lecturers, Networks and Special Interest Groups, HE in FE, Students

  • WWW Virtual Library, Biosciences - animal health, wellbeing & rights, biotechnology, botany, developmental biology, forest genetics & tree breeding, microbiology, mycology, neurobiology, parasitology, physiology & biophysics, plant microarrays, whales

Other Sites

Primate Behavior

explores social lives of the nonhuman primates, primate evolution and taxonomy and behavioral ecology, examines select groups of living primates through topics such as conservation, social behavior, cooperation/competition, reproduction, ethnoprimatology, and evolution of social organization: study materials, resources

Protein Folding Problem

mechanisms by which amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determine three-dimensional conformation, sequence determinants of secondary structure, folding of newly synthesized polypeptide chains, folding intermediates aggregation & competing off-pathway reactions, unfolding and refolding of proteins in vitro, role of helper proteins, protein recovery problems, diseases associated with protein folding defects: readings, projects, study materials, related resources

Introduction to Bioengineering

science basis for bioengineering with particular emphasis on molecular cell biology and systems biology: Video interviews of a selection of bioengineering faculty from various School of Engineering Departments at MIT
 

Introduction to Biology

fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and cell biology, Biological function at the molecular level, structure and regulation of genes & structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organisms: Readings, Recitations, Study Materials
 

Integrative Biology

General Human Anatomy, functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination
 

Foundations of Algorithms and Computational Techniques in Systems Biology

describes and illustrates computational approaches to solving problems in systems biology, series of case-studies explored that demonstrate how an effective match between statement of a biological problem and selection of appropriate algorithm or computational technique can lead to fundamental advances, covering several discrete and numerical algorithms used in simulation, feature extraction, and optimization for molecular, network, and systems models in biology

Genomic Medicine

for medical students, biomedical scientists, biomedical engineers, instructors of future genomic medicine & related courses, key genomic technologies & computational approaches driving advances in prognostics, diagnostics, & treatment: readings, projects

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