Chapter 19 Useful Websites
- CancerNet
- The National Cancer Institute's CancerNet contains a wide range of cancer information based on the latest research. It is reviewed regularly by oncology experts.
- Genetics Glossary
- A comprehensive glossary of terms for genetics. Within glossary entries, words that are also glossary terms themselves are linked to their own definitions, making this glossary a useful learning tool.
- Fraxa Research Foundation
- Visit this award-winning site of the Fraxa Research Foundation, a nonprofit, parent-driven organization that supports research into, and education about, fragile X syndrome.
- Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set
- Use this online quiz to test your knowledge of gene expression.
- OncoLink
- An excellent resource from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. You can search the database by type of cancer. There is information on cancer prevention, screening, and treatment; clinical trials (including new treatments); and much more.
- American Cancer Society
- Includes information on the types of cancer, prevention, treatment, and more.
- Cancer Cell Cam
- A micrograph, updated every 10 minutes, of human melanoma cells growing in culture.
- Huntington's Disease Society of America
- HDSA educates, promotes research, and provides support to those with Huntington's disease.
- Proto-oncogenes and Cancer
- An easy-to-understand discussion of the types of proto-oncogenes and a table of some of the genes responsible for heritable cancers.
- p53 Story
- The role of p53 in carcinogenesis.
- Apoptosis
- Another, more detailed, apoptosis animation. Click on Apoptosis animation link on the right column of the page.
- Apoptosis: Dance of Death
- An apoptosis animation.
- Control of Gene Expression
- The section of M.J. Farabee's excellent online text. Topics covered in this section include gene expression in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
- Gene Expression Tutorial
- A tutorial that uses the lac operon as an example of the regulation of gene expression in prokaryotic cells.
- Cancer
- This page of J. Kimball's online text discusses what cancer is, what causes it, and how it develops.
- Gene Regulation and the Operon
- An easy-to-understand explanation of the lac operon.
- Cancerlinks
- Links to cancer-related sites.
- CancerNet
- Provides information from the National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health. Includes types of cancer, treatment options, genetics, causes, risk factors, prevention, testing for cancer, coping with cancer, and links to other cancer web sites.
- Barbara McClintock Links
- Links to Web pages about Barbara McClintock, the discoverer of mobile genetic elements.
