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This site, supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the American Society for Cell Biology, is a resource database of cell images, videos, and animations for use in research, education, and training. The historic and modern...

This classroom module will serve as an introduction to the topic of biomimetics. Students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts of scale, laboratory instruments involved, logical reasoning and imaging materials related to the topic. The activity is appropriate for upper elementary and...

Gel Electrophoresis, designed and run by the University of Utah, is an interactive program that allows the student to learn and practice basic techniques that molecular biologists use every day. This program is an interactive animated procedure that allows the user to "see" DNA strands and instructs...

This video, provided by Digital World Biology, is from the 2022 Antibody Engineering Hackathon, an event where teams collaborated to develop Course-based Undergraduate Research projects (CURES) for students studying biotechnology. In this video, presenters Sheela Vemu and Mallari Miko provide an...

This video clip provides a glimpse into the product formation cycle at Genentech, usually acknowledged as the first biotechnology company. In 1976, Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson started Genentech which became a publicly traded company in 1980. For their first product, the company used recombinant...

This webpage is provided by Hartnell College and includes a tutorial on transcription. The tutorial is intended to help users "learn the process of transcription, including the major players involved and the basics of RNA processing." The tutorial includes the following sections: Description of...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes how to transfer a bacterial culture to an agar slant. The brief demonstration is described step by step and would be easy to replicate in a laboratory setting. Running time for the video is 0:34.

This video, provided by Digital World Biology, is from a series of tutorial videos for iCn3D, a web-based three-dimensional visualization and structural analysis platform for molecular structures. During the video, presenter Sandra Porter discusses using iCn3D to view structures that were aligned...

This video, provided by Digital World Biology, is from a series of tutorial videos for iCn3D, a web-based three-dimensional visualization and structural analysis platform for molecular structures. During this tutorial, presenter Sandra Porter provides step-by-step instructions on how to look at...

This video, provided by Digital World Biology, is from a series of tutorial videos for iCn3D, a web-based three-dimensional visualization and structural analysis platform for molecular structures. During this video, presenter Sandra Porter provides step-by-step instructions on using the select by...