BIOTECH LINKS
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1. JOBS IN BIOTECH

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/CC/CP/

This is a GREAT resource both for learning about jobs in biotech and getting some practice understanding spoken English!!! 

It's a large number of interviews with people from a wide range of positions in biotech.

For each interview, audio and video clips are included to convey a better sense of who the individual is and how they feel about their career path. All the interviews are transcribed into each profile, so you can read what the person said (if you have a hard time understanding the video).

Technical Stuff: The Career Profiles video clips are designed to be as compact as is technically possible without a lot of proprietary software. Nevertheless, some files are still large. If the video files are taking too long to download or are not working, you might check the information below to see if your system is configured to receive them.

The Career Profiles video clips are in Apple's "QuickTime"™ format. The necessary software is built into the Macintosh operating system, so no configuration should be necessary if you are using Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, or later, on a Mac.

The Windows™ operating system can easily be extended to support QuickTime format. You can click here to download the free software necessary. When the QuickTime plug-in is installed, no further configuration should be necessary. Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, or later should play the video clips without any additional video utility.

When the video does work, click on your browser's "back" button to return from the video clip to the interview page. You can also click on your browser's "go" menu to retrace your steps.

2. GRAPHICS

Graphics Gallery (Access Excellence)

Origin: Unknown (Cool, but complicated: your English needs to be REALLY good.)

Players must use actual bioinformatics tools from the World Wide Web to determine the origin of an unidentified organic sample.

4. GLOSSARIES - DICTIONARIES

Glossary - International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)

Glossary - US Nat'l Science and Tech Council

Glossary of Biotechnology Terms - U. of Washington
 

5. BIOTECH- GENERAL (sort of in alphabetical order ...)

About.com - Biotechnology (A collection of lots of other Biotech links.)

Access Excellence

Biotech. for the 21st Century: New Horizons - U.S. National Science and Technology Council

BioTech: Science Resources

BioLink

Biotechnologiepark Luckenwalde

Biotechnology Industry Organization: Guide to Biotechnology

BioTOP / Home (Biotech in Berlin - Brandenburg)

The DNA Learning Center

EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Max Planck Institute

National Center for Biotech Info (US Gov)

The RCSB Protein Data Bank

BHT Berlin - Biotechnology

Transparent Laboratory | Hands-on genetic research and engineering (in Berlin - Buch)

University of Wisconsin - Biotechnology Center

Welcome to BioTech

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology

6. GENERAL ENGLISH

English NetLinks

7. ESL - STREAMING VIDEOS

(These are both great sites that offer a variety of practice based on streamed videos. You need a fast internet connection for them.) They require Real Player. Please click the icon below to go the the Real.com site, where you can download the free player.

Literacy Net - Videos containing news and other news-type stories from CNN-San Francisco with exercises for listening, reading, vocabulary, and grammar.

Real English - A very well-made series of videos and related exercises. They are mostly interviews with people on the streets of various world cities, informal in nature, and more-or-less focused on a particular grammar point.

The website is a collaborative, ongoing project done by English teachers from around the world. The project was started by Mike Marzio of the Marzio School of English in France.

Access requires registering for a password, but you don't have to pay anything.

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