National Library of Medicine: Profiles in Science: Francis Crick Papers

Whether it's Earth Day or another average school day, there are always ways we can protect our planet. An environmental science project combines The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and the Flat Stanley Project to create an innovative...

Adrian Kantrowitz's life and scientific accomplishments are chronicled and catalogued in this extensive exhibition. Kantrowitz was famous for performing the first heart transplant in the United States, and for the life-saving inventions...

Home page of United States Department of Health and Human Services and the National Library of Medicine. All medical information contained in the Medline search engine comes from this, one of the world's largest medical libraries.

Search of National Library of Medicine for all current research articles on a specific topic. Students must enter key words in the search box. Results are abstracts of research articles.

Learn how to gain access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.

The Osward T. Avery Collection is a library of collected material spanning the entire life of Osward T. Avery. The materials include published articles and books, laboratory notes, correspondence, speeches, official reports, photographs,...

Take a trip with Watson and Crick as they struggle to determine the structure of the DNA molecule. In this beautiful documentary, biology students learn the history of this revolutionary discovery, and even hear from James Watson...

Learn about the history of science at this wonderful resource that provides virtual books in the biomedical sciences field for viewing at home. These are books and manuscripts that are hundreds of years old and would not be accessible...

Less than 25 percent of published research proves reproducible. The video discusses the importance of duplicating results, introduces the challenge related to this task, and examines the issue from multiple points of view, allowing for...

Peer review of science laboratory reports? You bet! First, learners work in pairs to review a scientific article. Then they trade lab reports for peer review. The end result is the publication of a classroom scientific journal!