BioRxiv : biology pre-prints

BioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. This new resource is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Lab, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community. Articles are not peer-reviewed or edited before being posted online. However, all articles undergo a basic content screening process.

BioRxiv accepts preprints of articles covering all aspects of research in the life sciences but does not accept clinical studies or clinical trials. Scope includes:

Biochemistry Bioengineering Bioinformatics Cancer Biology Cell Biology Genetics Genomics Immunology Microbiology

Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Neurobiology Pathology Physiology Plant Biology Scientific Communication Synthetic Biology Systems Biology

Addgene: plasmid repository resource

 Addgene is a non-profit plasmid repository dedicated to helping scientists around  the world share high-quality plasmids. Their collection of over 18,000 plasmids has been contributed to by research labs around the world. To find out more and see their molecular biology references and special collections see their website.

Academic Search Complete

The Academic Search Premier database subscription has upgraded to Academic Search Complete.

Subject coverage includes biology, ethics chemistry, engineering,  materials science, mathematics, pharma sciences and physics.

Content includes:

• More than 13,000 abstracted and indexed journals
• Nearly 9,000 full-text journals
• Full text for more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals
• Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,400 journals
• Daily updates

 An EBSCO iPhone and Android database app is also available. Click here to access the database.

Watermelon juice the new biofuel?

Twenty percent of watermelons never make it to the picnic table. Rather, one in every five is left to ripen and rot in the field, rejected for even the slightest of cosmetic imperfections. But U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers may have found a way to elevate these outcasts to an even higher calling than the summer BBQ: biofuel production. Intrigued?. Have a look at yesterday's post on the SciAm blog here. The full research article by Fish, Bruton & Russo is due to be published today in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2009, 2:1. Read the abstract here.

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

THE NIBIB site includes descriptions of research in a wide range of areas of biomedical imaging and bioengineering as well as information on staff and a list of publications. Full text reports are science education publications are available. A calendar of events, press releases and workshop reports can be accessed on the site along with picture and video galleries.
http://www.nibib.nih.gov/&handle=20080624-11145184

Bioengineers and blood vessels

Click on the link below to read how Bioengineers at the University of Limerick have developed a way of connecting severed blood vessels.

http://0-www.ireland.com.ditlib.dit.ie/newspaper/sciencetoday/2008/0221/1203471488565.html

Medical imaging techniques

This resource from the Univeristy of Manchester is aimed at bioscience / physics students and focuses on medical imaging techniques. It contains case studies, an interactive quiz and tutorials covering MRI and CT images.

Find this resource at http://cal.man.ac.uk/student_projects/2000/mmmr7gjw/