"Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database."

Anatomy and Physiology Interactives: The North Harris campus of Lone Star College has provided this amazing list of links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials covering Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry and Chemistry.

 

Anatomy and Physiology Web Sites: "This site for students in Anatomy and Physiology classes at Tomball College, includes a list of helpful links to active Internet sites where students can find additional information to help them understand terminology and processes in the biological sciences."

 

BioMed Central: BioMed Central is an open access publisher of online journals. "This database covers over 100 Open Access Journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine."

 

Body Mass Index: The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided information on Body Mass Index. The site includes a BMI calculator for adults, teens, and children.

 

Human Anatomy and Physiology Web Sites: Professor Paul Wissmann at the Life Sciences Department of Santa Monica College has created multiple links to human histology, human biochemistry, the muscular system, and the skeletal system. He has also included an anatomy laboratory manual.

 

Global Demography of Aging: "The Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA), led by David E. Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, carries out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world."

 

National Center for Biotechnology Information: "Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease."

 

Neuropsychology Central: This site is devoted exclusively to the study of neuropsychology with primary emphasis on brain and behavior, and various other topics in the neurosciences.

 

Neuroscience Information Framework: This website is a "dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, the Neuroscience Information Framework advances neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment."

 

Neurosciences on the Internet: Use this index to locate research on the human brain, human diseases, and other major topics in biology and medicine.

 

NHC Anatomy and Physiology Tutorials: Select tutorials by appropriate topic for an interactive learning experience.

 

Physiology & Biophysics: A links directory maintained by The Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

 

Scholarly Sport Sites: "This subject directory brings together the websites which will assist the serious sports researcher, kinesiology librarian, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty. An Index to Sport Subjects provides the access to the specific parts of this website. A keyword search engine is also provided below."

 

SenseLab: "The SenseLab Project is a long term effort to build integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems, using the olfactory pathway as a model. The project involves novel informatics approaches to constructing databases and database tools for collecting and analyzing neuroscience information, and providing for efficient interoperability with other neuroscience databases."

 

Specialized Information Services: "The Specialized Information Services (SIS) Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is responsible for information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health."

 

University of Houston Anatomy & Physiology Tutoring Links: Rose Chute at the University of Houston has created an index to online tutorials and other web resources in Anatomy and Physiology.

 

WebAnatomy: Tutorials, images, and links related to Anatomy and Physiology.

 

Whole Brain Atlas: This atlas created Keith A. Johnson M.D. and J. Alex Becker, Ph.D. of Harvard medical school, provide neuroimaging for the normal brain, cerebrovascular disease, neoplastic disease, degenerative disease, and inflammatory or infectious disease.

BioMed Central Physiology: An open access journal, BMC Physiology publishes original peer-reviewed research articles in cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional, and developmental aspects of physiological processes and is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, CABI and Google Scholar.

 

BrainMaps: This site is an interactive multiresolution next-generation brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function. Created and maintained by Principal Investigator Edward G. Jones and the Brainmaps Team (Ade Adowe, Kate Brown, Maly Bun, Megan Cleary, Matt Countryman, Xinran Cui, Fred Gorin, Alessandro Graziano, Brendan Hunt, Larry Lau, Albert Lim, Robert Linehan, Xiaobo Liu, Parisa Mehran, Shawn Mikula, Karl Murray, Phong Nguyen, Barbara Rubino, James Stone, Issac Trotts, Long Votran, Shang Wei, Jennifer Wright) at the UC Regents, Davis campus.

 

Buck Institute for Age Research: "By focusing on the connection between age and disease, scientists at the Buck Institute are striving to develop diagnostic tests and treatments that will prevent or delay conditions associated with aging."

 

Clinical Trials: This site is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Provided is information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

 

E-anatomy: Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy.

 

eMedicine: This site is an open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields which contains over 6,500 articles, and has over 10,000 contributors. Registration is free.

 

eSkeletons Project: "The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons of several primates in 2-D and 3-D full color, animations, and much supplemental information." Sposored by the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Exploring Life's Origins: This website is part of a multimedia exhibit at the Museum of Science and includes animations and illustrations to help describe origins of life research and theories. Illustrations and animations may be downloaded in the Resources for Educators section, and have been provided by Janet Iwasa, a NSF Discovery Corps Postdoctoral Fellow, in collaboration with Jack Szostak and his laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Current Science and Technology team at the Museum of Science.

 

Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: A full text electronic version of Charles Darwin's entire book, "Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals".

 

Genes and Disease: "Genes and Disease is a collection of articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause. These genetic disorders are organized by the parts of the body that they affect. As some diseases affect various body systems, they appear in more than one chapter."

 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: This site is provided by HHMI, a nonprofit medical research organization that "engages in the direct conduct of research, with the promotion of human knowledge in the field of the basic sciences and the effective application thereof for the benefit of mankind."

 

Human Anatomy Online: The Intellimed International Corporation, a heatlh care organization, has created a visual study of human anatomy covering every system of the body. Each topic has animations, hundreds of graphics and thousands of descriptive links. This interactive site is an ideal reference for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

 

Institute of Gerontology: "The mission of the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University is to conduct and disseminate research findings that will (1) increase knowledge about aging and related processes, (2) improve the practice of gerontology and geriatrics, and (3) influence the development and implementation of public policy. We are a multidisciplinary team of faculty who facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and participate in the culturally diverse urban environment in which we live. We emphasize the social and behavioral aspects of aging and health."

 

MCG Department of Neurosurgery: News and publications on the subject of Neurosurgery provided by the Medical College of Georgia.

 

Mendelian Inheritance in Man from the National Center for Biotechnology Information Genetic Disorders: "This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins."

 

National Institute on Aging: Part of the NIH, the NIA's mission is to "support and conduct genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research related to the aging process, foster the development of research and clinician scientists in aging, and communicate information about aging and advances in research on aging to the scientific community, health care providers, and the public."

 

PhysiologyINFO: "This site was developed by leading researchers in conjunction with the American Physiological Society to educate the public and answer questions about physiology. The site provides the latest cutting edge research by working physiologists."

 

Visible Human: "The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy."

 

WebPath: Internet Pathology Laboratory: "The WebPath computer-aided instructional resource designed by Mercer University School of Medicine contains over 2000 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. For self-assessment and study there are over 2000 examination items. There are more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas."

 

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics: "The scientific objective of the Centre is to explore all aspects of the genetic susceptibility of disease including the localisation of genes involved in common diseases, characterisation of the variants responsible for susceptibility, the understanding of how these DNA variants may contribute to risk of disease in the population and finally, how such genetic factors contribute biologically to a disease process."

 

WinkingSkull: "This site includes 246 full-color illustrations from the Atlas of Anatomy, arranged by anatomic region, then by tissue layer (musculature, neurovasculature, bones etc.). Using WinkingSkull's study/testing features requires free individual registration. This high-quality site is based on the work of three medical educators with many years' experience teaching gross anatomy to medical students, and on the work of two award-winning medical illustrators."