Welcome to Bionet - the site that lets you explore and debate the latest discoveries in life sciences.
Should we clone human embryos to cure disease? Would you choose your child's genes? Would you eat genetically modified food? Will new drugs keep you healthy and make you live forever?
Stem cells; living longer; life with HIV; design-a-baby?; future food; who owns your genes?
Compassion in World Farming
Campaigning to end the factory farming of animals and long distance transport through hard-hitting political lobbying, investigations and high profile campaigns.
Fact sheets and other publications can be downloaded from this site. Topics include: Antibiotics in Farm Animals; Live Exports; Genetic Engineering and Fur Farming.
http://www.planet-science.com/library/index.html
Links to web sites on astronomy; botany; chemistry; earth sciences; ecology; food science & nutrition; general science; health & medicine; human biology; maths; physics; technology/material/engineering; zoology.
There is also a section about inventors and inventions.
Robots! Links to current NASA research and to non-NASA research.
Pictures of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae etc from the Hubble space Telescope. News of Hubble’s science and remarkable discoveries.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/policy/
Reports on topics including cloning, GM crops, GM animals, climate change, measuring biodiversity, biological weapons. Updated regularly.
Pages about GM debate, BSE, healthier eating, food safety, hygiene, food labelling and food industry. Links to other related articles.
GM Crops and Food, Human Genetics, GM Animals, Biological Weapons.
http://www.cellsalive.com/index.htm
Cell Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Microscopy. Images of and information about the structure of both plant and animal cells. Animations of the process of mitosis and of the growth of cancer cells and bacteria.
http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/notebook/courses/guide/cell.htm
Diagrams are provided of basic cell structure, together with specific examples of blood, roothair, sperm and xylem cells. Animations of mitosis and meiosis. Related topics cover chromosomes, DNA< RNA, transcription, translation, proteins and amino acids.
http://www.teenagehealthfreak.com/homepage/index.asp
This site has a wealth of advice and information, presented in a clear way. Use the A-Z section for detailed information and statistics on everything concerned with health that you could possibly want to know about!