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National Library of Medicine - Bookshelf
"The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox..."
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) publication

Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe (ABE)
"This web site is a gateway to sites in many European countries where ABE is active, as well as other websites with useful information about agricultural biotechnology."

• Genetically Modified Food: The New European GM Labelling and Traceability Regulations [.pdf]

American Medical Association - CSA [Council on Scientific Affairs] Reports

• Genetically Modified Crops and Foods (1-00) - (dead link)
  "This report of the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs represents the medical/scientific literature on this subject as of December 2000."

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

BIONEWS - (dead link)
Latest News from Biotechnology

Biotech Database - (dead link) "This prototype Database for products derived using Modern Biotechnology was developed to allow regulatory officials in the OECD Member Countries to share information regarding certain products or regulated articles that have been approved for commercialization, have obtained certain approvals that would allow commercialization of products, or are in the process of being approved for commercialization. It was developed at the request of the Expert Group on Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology and is in an early stage of development."
Please read the disclaimer carefully.

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Economic Perspectives
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State

• Biotechnology: Food Security and Safety
  Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1999

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Genetically Modified Pest Protected Plants [.pdf]

GeneWatch
"...is the only national magazine that continually monitors the ethical, social and ecological impacts of human and agricultural biotechnology...Selected articles and all of our book reviews from these issues are available online."

InfoBiotech Canada - (dead link)

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

• Biosafety WebPages - (dead link)
  • ICGEB Biosafety News
  • Biosafety Database
    "The ICGEB bibliographic database on biosafety studies, an index of selected scientific articles published on biosafety and risk assessment from 1990 onward. Featuring records from the applied life sciences database CAB ABSTRACTS^[tm] from CABI Publishing."

National Academy Press (free online versions)

• Ecological Monitoring of Genetically Modified Crops: A Workshop Summary
  By Robert Pool, Ph.D., and Joan Esnayra, Ph.D. Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Board on Biology National Research Council, 2000.

Nature
Feature Articles of the Week

• "Science of the Lambs" - (dead link) (June 29, 2000)
  Re: cloning

Nature Biotechnology - (dead link)

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National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2006
  • Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health
    Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation, National Research Council, 2006.
• 2004
  • Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
    Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council, 2004.
• 2003
  • Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the "Duel Use" Dilemma
    Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council, 2003
• 2002
  • Animal Biotechnology: Science Based Concerns
    Committee on Defining Science-Based Concerns Associated with Products of Animal Biotechnology, Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Life Sciences, Nat'l Research Council, 2002.
  • Marine Biotechnology in the Twenty-First Century: Problems, Promise, and Products
    Committee on Marine Biotechnology: Biomedical Applications of Marine Natural Products, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council, 2002.
• 2001
  • Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: The Impact of Emerging Genomic Information: Summary of a Forum
    Robert Pool, Ph.D., Tallahassee, Florida, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council, 2001.
• 2000
  • (NAS Colloquium) - Links Between Recombination and Replication: Vital Roles of Recombination
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000.
  • Opportunities for Environmental Applications of Marine Biotechnology:
    Proceedings of the October 5-6, 1999, Workshop
    Board on Biology, Oceans Studies Board, 2000.
  • Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture
    Prepared by the Royal Society of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences, 2000.

National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Institutes of Health (US)

• Entrez Popset
  "A PopSet is a set of DNA sequences that have been collected to analyse the evolutionary relatedness of a population. The population could originate from different members of the same species, or from organisms from different species."
• Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
  "GEO is our effort to build a gene expression data repository and online resource for the retrieval of gene expression data from any organism or artificial source."
• Malaria Genetics & Genomics (MGG)
  "...provides data and information relevant to malaria genetics and genomics. These resources include organism specific sequence BLAST databases (Plasmodium falciparum only, all Plasmodium), genome maps, linkage markers, and information about genetic studies. Links are provided for other malaria web sites and genetic data on related apicomplexan parasites."
  • Malaria Literature/GenBank
    "...uses the NCBI PubMed as a WWW search tool for accessing biomedical journal citations and linking to full-text journals at participating publishers' websites."
• Newsletter
• Reference Sequence (RefSeq)
  "The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) collection aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, non-redundant set of sequences, including genomic DNA, transcript (RNA), and protein products, for major research organisms...RefSeq standards serve as the basis for medical, functional, and diversity studies; they provide a stable reference for gene identification and characterization, mutation analysis, expression studies, polymorphism discovery, and comparative analyses. RefSeqs are used as a reagent for the functional annotation of some genome sequencing projects, including those of human and mouse."

Nature

• Web Focus: GM Crops: Time to Choose (October 2003)
  "In some countries, transgenic plants are already a part of mainstream farming. Will the rest of the world soon follow suit?" Sections include: News ; UK GM Debates ; Farm-Scale Evaluations.

Nature Reviews Genetics

• Web Focus: Genetic Modification
  "...spans the entire scope of the GM field and provides some insights into just why it provokes so much controversy."

OECD - The Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology - (dead link)

• BioTrack Online - (dead link)
  "...the Web site of OECDís Programme on the Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology ... focuses on information related to the regulatory oversight of products of biotechnology which is used by governments, industry and other stakeholders."
• Consensus Documents - (dead link)

PubCrawler
An Update Alerting Service for PubMed and GenBank
"...a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.  PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."

Public Perceptions of Genetic Engineering: Australia, 1994 - (dead link)
Final Report to the Department of Industry, Science and Technology, May 1995 (International Social Science Survey)

Science - Functional Genomics
"...is designed to serve as a convenient entry point to the rich world of genomics and, especially, post-genomics. It includes current news, a news archive, drawn mainly from Science and ScienceNOW, a collection of research papers and news broken into various categories of interest in the post-genomic world, a page gathering together Science's genome special issues, pointers to a wide variety of Web resources in genomics and post-genomics, and a special node of news and information on the biotechnology business."
From Science magazine

U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
  • FAO Statement on Biotechnology
  • FAO Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
  • Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
    FAO Research and Technology Paper No. 7

U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• BINAS Online - (dead link)
  Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)
  • Regulations - (dead link)

U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• National Center for Environmental Health
  • Cry9c Report
    Investigation of Human Health Effects Associated with Potential Exposure to Genetically Modified Corn