Resources

Biotechnology Companies in Northern Virginia

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
• Bode Technologies
• Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Covance laboratories
• Advion

Government Resources

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Forensics

• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Forensic Magazine
• Forensic Science Degrees

Regulatory, Patent, and Legal Resources

• Patents and Trademark Office Website

Agricultural Biotech field

• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.
• AgBiotechNet

Bioethics

• University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics

Bioinformatics

• Predict Protein
• eMolecules Chemicals Information
• Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics Knowledge Base

General Sites of Interest

• VA Biotech
• MD Biotech
• North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• Cornell University Biotechnology Center
• Proteomics Server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
• National center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Useful websites to look for Biotech jobs

• Craiglist DC Biotech Jobs
• DC Jobs
• Washington Post Jobs
• Jobs at Advion
• Jobs at Covance
• Jobs at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
• Jobs at Bode Technologies
• Jobs at the VA department of Forensic Science

Activities and resources for Science Teachers

• DNA Biotechnology manual
• DNA electrophoresis and fingerprinting
• Immunology manual
• Chromatography manual
• Protein electrophoresis manual
• Genes in a bottle and DNA necklace