Selected Cell Biology Web Sites

The Nanoworld Home Page
http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html
The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis is an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to the understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macromolecular scales. Comprehensive image bank full of great electron microscope shots of lots of neat biological stuff. Great images!!

Virus News and Views
http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/micro3.html
Virus News and Views, maintained by the Microbiology Department at the University of Cape Town, contains a rich supply of current articles relating to viruses. Great source of information for a high school student researching a virus.

Institute for Molecular Virology
http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/welcome.html
This site has many electron micrographs of viruses. You will see fantastic images and movies of viruses! Lots of them are in color. The virus images at this site make for great decorations on any biology class's bulletin board.

Electromagnetic Images of Viruses
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/emimages.html
Linda Stannard of the University of Capetown offers electromagnetic images of both animal and plant viruses on her web site. She also provides annotations that tell information such as the size of the virus and the structure. The pictures are excellent and now students will know what the common cold virus looks like!

3-D Interactive Cell
http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/outrea/greenhouse/nursery/
biology/home.html
This site has a great three-dimensional representation of a cell! Students get to see an inside view of common organelles like mitochondria and the Golgi apparatus.