Denise Lim
Fun Links Page
I don't check these links regularly, so some of them may be old or broken. Please let me know if you find any links that are no longer active. Enjoy!
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Study Hacks is a blog dedicated to exploring what it means to lead a successful, enjoyable, meaningful life (added 2/2/12)
Drew Berry is a cell biologist who learned video animation in order to share unseeable biological processes. This is a talk he gave at a TEDxSydney event in May, 2011. It includes the animation of DNA replication that I show in BIO 6 (added 2/2/12)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's animation page. includes animations of the malaria life cycle and dengue fever (added 2/2/12)
Fresh Air episode about the history of the smallpox vaccine in the U.S. (added 4/13/11)
Animated videos of biological processes produced at Harvard's Molecular and Cellular Biology Department (added 4/13/11)
How the Heart Works (NIH site) (added 4/13/11)
Science Friday Videos (added 2/12/11)
This edition of the Diane Rehm Show is a follow up of the report discrediting the MMR/autism link. Guests include Alison Tepper Singer Founder and President of the Autism Science Foundation, formerly Executive Vice President of Autism Speaks; Seth Mnookin Author of "The Panic Virus: a True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear"; and Dr. Roberta DeBiasi pediatric infectious diseases physician at Children’s National Medical Center. Click on the "Listen" link at the top of the page for the audio. (aired 2/2/2011)
The MMR vaccine was linked to autism by a single study published by British researcher David Wakefield in 1998 based on twelve children. This article in The British Medical Journal documents how the original study was based on falsified data: How The Case Against the MMR Vaccine Was Fixed. His findings have never been reproduced in more than two dozen follow up studies by other researchers. David Wakefield filed a patent for a competing vaccine shortly before his 1998 study was published and was paid more than $670,000 by lawyers suing the producers of the original MMR vaccine. (published 1/5/2011)
MedlinePlus (National Institutes of Health) Videos of surgical procedures (posted 11/2010)
This is a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk given by my friend Mark Roth, who studies what he calls metabolic flexibility, or suspended animation: http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html (filmed 2/2010) and here's an interview that explains the physiology a bit more: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/mark-roth-on-mice-and-men/
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - See "Global Health" under the Topics menu
Ascaris and other Nematode movies and photos (a little gross, so brace yourself)
ASM (American Society of Microbiologists) Visual Atlas of common microbiological tests
Science Blog of an Epidemiologist
Field Study of Extreme Microorganisms in Kamchatka
Bacteria Talking to Other Bacteria, or How To Be a Neurotic Scientist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Animations and Virtual Labs (HHMI)
Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, published by the CDC
Photo Archive: 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Microbe World, published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Austin Community College's Microbiology "Links" page
