Honors Project: "METABOLISM IN THE NEWS"
Biochemistry 462b Honors Spring 2010
Instructor: Dr. Don P. Bourque
Preceptor: Imran Ghare

Resources: Some sources of topics

Some printed sources of newsworthy topics:
 
Recent textbooks
Scientific American
U.S. News and World Report
Newspapers (Tucson, other cities)
New York Times
Nature
Science
Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences

Journal of American Medical Assocoation

Journal of Clinical Investigation
National Institutes of Health
Discover
Television news reports
Time

Newsweek
Science News

National Enquirer (extra points!)



Some WEB sites for topic search:

Eurekalert: http://www.eurekalert.org
American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org

Science News: http://www.sciencenews.org

ScienceNow: http://www.sciencenow.org/
ScienceExpress:
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.dtl
Center for Disease Control:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidad/eid
University of Pennsylvania medical site: http://www.med.upenn.edu

Genentech: http://www.gene.com
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/

NCBI/NLM/NIH w/link to Entrez Medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez
National Library of Medicine homepage:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov
National Center for Biotechnology Information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genome Bioinformatics Databases: http://genome.ucsc.edu/
Harvard Biology resources:  http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

DiscoverR8 - News for Life Scientists: http://www.discover8.com/
Google Scholar Search:
http://scholar.google.com/ and UCLA guide to using Google Scholar Search
USA Today: 
http://www.usatoday.com

National Enquirer:  http://www.nationalenquirer.com

Science Daily:  http://www.sciencedaily.com

Science OnLine:  http://www.sciencemag.org
ABC NEWS: http://www.ABC.com
CNN OnLine: 
http://www.cnn.com

Current Events and Newspapers at UofA library:  http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/articles/index.jsp
Science Direct: 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Nature Science Update:  http://www.nature.com/nsu

CMS Molecular Biology Resource:  http://restools.sdsc.edu/ [Excellent general resource for Biochemistry and Molecula Biology]
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomics (KEGG): http://www.genome.ad.jp/kegg/

U.S. News and World Report: http://www.usnews.com/




[Revised January 12, 2010]