Science, Biology for the Rest of Us

Sometimes, if not always, I/we need to check what scientists tell us. They talk science language; we talk business. So we need "translators". Access Excellence is such a site, highly recommended!

Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides health, biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., and in 1999 joined the National Health Museum, a non-profit organization founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop as a national center for health education. Access Excellence will form the core of the educational component of the National Health Museum Website that is currently under development. .

If, say, you wish to know about Transfer and Cloning of the Insulin Geneyou just go to http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/transfer_and.html

I like the graphics or Visual Library. I pull down an illustration and ask the scientist to explain how and where her/his invention fits in. Works well.