Biology 3240 - Lecture Web Links

What is HUS? (Pritzker Law Firm)

The Burger that Shattered Her Life (New York Times)

Pulse-field Gel Electrophoresis (Davidson College)

PulseNet (CDC)

Food Safety and Inspection Service - Ask Karen

How is Salmonella most likely to get into eggs these days? (CDC)

Whittakers's 5 Kingdom Tree of Live (1969)

What are the Archaea?

Georgia Tech researchers find microbes in the upper atmosphere. (e! Science News)

Porin proteins (Harvard)

LPS (Micro and Immunology Online, U South Carolina)

Polyhedral compartments (Yeates Lab at UCLA)

 

TEST 2 URLS

Ethanol producers excited about Caldicellulosiruptor!

Mechanism of Transposition (McGraw Hill's Molecular Biology)

MDR- and XDR TB Facts (CDC)

Dangerous TB Patient Detained on US Border (Wall Street Journal)

FDA approves first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years (USA Today)

Isolation Room for TB patient (Qualitair)

How to extract DNA from anything living (University of Utah)

 

TEST 3 URLS

Chamberland filter (Sciencemuseum.org)

DNA replisome (YouTube)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the flu (CDC)

First case of new bird flu virus found in Beijing (NBC)

Pandemic phases of influenza (WHO)

How antigenic shift occurs in the flu virus (Wiki)

Spread of seasonal flu in the USA, 2013 (CDC's FluView)

The microbes we're made of (Smithsonian)

Fake fecal transplants for gut Repooplulation (Scientific American podcast)

 

 

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