Biotechnology Web Links
 

Website for Research Journals:

PubMed
Red Mountain Library Access (see teacher for username and password)
BioOne
Scientific American
Nature (limited access)
Science Magazine
HighWire Press (Standford)
Science Daily
JSTOR

 

Using Arizona State University Library:

Read these directions before using Arizona State Library databases.

  1. After selecting the link for AZ State Library databases, you will be connected to the Arizona State Library website.
  2. Select State Residents Online Info.
  3. You will be connected to a SEARCH screen. Do NOT USE THIS SEARCH method.
  4. Select Advanced Search.
  5. Enter your zip code where indicated.
  6. You will be see another set of search boxes. Do NOT use this search method.
  7. Scroll past the search boxes to view the list of databases. Choose the database you wish to use.
  8. Highly recommended databases include:

    EBSCO Novelist
    ProQuest SIRS Knowledge Source
    Gale: Literature Resource Center
    Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
    Gale: Science Resource Center
    First Search: World Almanac
    Psychology Today

To earn extra credit, type a one-page summary based on listening/reading any of the following "stories"
Note: The report may be more than one page
    
Farmers Using RoundUp

Alternative Stem Cell Source:
ABC News
NPR (Read and Listen)
Note: Photocopy any other source
and attach with a summary for extra credit

FAST Plant Research Paper

FAST Plant Website

FAST Plant Video
Cultivating Bamboo
NPR: A Pill to Prevent Aging?
Thumbs and Mice
Students Doing Research
NPR: Too Much Salt?

NPR: Bacteria in Your Mouth
Food Safety
NPR: Training Aging Brains
Bristish DNA Database Controversy
1. Experts Call for DNA Restrictions
2. Concern Over DNA Database Access
3. DNA Database Call Prompts Concern
4. ALL UK 'Must Be on DNA Database"
5 . Keep Everyone's DNA says Judge
6 . Call to Expand DNA Database
7 . DNA Data for Minor Offenders
8 . Police DNA databases under debate
9 . DNA database of suspects proposed
Scientists Back Universal DNA Bank (2001)
Kin Search "Could Trap Criminals" (2006)

MSDS Lab:

Go to
MSDS Sheets

Directions:

  1. In the box marked search for
    type the manufacturer’s name and the product
  2. Use EMD as the manufacturer of 95% ethanol
  3. In the next screen, locate the chemical and click on it
  4. In the next screen, click on the MSDS button that is adjacent to the product code that matched the one listed below
  5. Read the document for the information you need

If you can't find the product codes listed in the lab, you may use the following codes instead:


95% Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) EM EX0280-3
           OR
70% Ethanol EM-EX0281C-4

salicylic acid (sodium salicylate) EM SX0745-1

acetylsalicylic acid Alfa Aesar AAAA12488-22

ferric nitrate (iron III nitrate) EM FX0225-4

5.0 N hydrochloric acid EM EM3419-1

acetic anhydride Mallinckradt Baker (Baker) MK242002