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Anatomy Resources – The AAA Top 5 Lists
Resources listed below are the top 5 sites visited by AAA members for each category.
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Academic Links

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  American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
If you study or teach human anatomy you will be interested in this society, which promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, scholarship among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

  Biomaterials Network
The Biomaterials Network provides a biomaterials resource for scientists, anatomists, researchers and the business and government communities.

  Avian Brain Circuitry Database
An online searchable database that stores anatomical and histochemical data about the structure and connectivity of the avian brain.

  eMedicine World Medical Library
Having more than 5500 pages of health content and many learning resources useful for those who study human anatomy, the site contains articles written by physicians for patients and consumers

  Digimorph - Digital Morphology
The National Science Foundation Digital Library at the University of Texas at Austin, provides access to 3D CT scan view of living and extinct vertebrate anatomy.

 

Associations

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  European Life Sciences Organization
The barriers between disciplines are disappearing. Biochemists, cell biologists, developmental biologists, geneticists, immunologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists, and pharmacologists are now all using the same molecular tools and speaking the same scientific language. Therefore a new organization named ELSO was launched in 2000.

  British Association of Clinical Anatomists
The Society is open to those with a clinical or scientific interest in gross topography, imaging anatomy in all modalities, microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure, development and growth before and after birth, neuroanatomy and the developing field of movement science.

  American Association of Clinical Anatomists


  Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) was founded to promote communication among teachers of human anatomy and physiology in colleges, universities, and related institutions; to present workshops and conferences (both local and national) where members can obtain information about the latest developments in the health and science fields; and to encourage educational research and publications.

  Pan American Association of Anatomy
The primary objective of the Pan American Association of Anatomy is to stimulate development and promotion of the Morphological Sciences on the American Continent, by facilitating scientific exchange and friendship among members.

 

Awards

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  NIGMS Research Training and Fellowship Awards
NIGMS awards three types of grants for research training and fellowships: Institutional National Research Service Awards (pre- and postdoctoral training grants), Individual National Research Service Awards (pre- and postdoctoral fellowships), and Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Awards (undergraduate student training in academic research awards, predoctoral fellowships, faculty fellowships, visiting scientist fellowships, and ancillary training awards).

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships


  Dana Foundation Grants and Awards
Dana Foundation science and health grants support brain research in neuroscience and immunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease.r

  GrantsNet
GrantsNet is a one-stop resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.

  James S. McDonnell Foundation
The 21st Century Science Initiative supports research in three topics: Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior; Studying Complex Systems; and Brain Cancer Research

 

Commercial - Educational Software

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  3D-DOCTOR
3D-DOCTOR is 3D medical imaging software for creating 3D models from CT, MRI and microscopy images. It is FDA approved and currently being used by leading medical schools and hospitals around the world. For additional information, please contact: Ted Wu Email: ywu@ablesw.com Phone: 781-862-2804

  anatomy.tv
Here you will find a wealth of 3D anatomy. Inside you can rotate the view and add and remove layers of anatomy. The current range includes the Hand & Forearm, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, Foot & Ankle, and the Spine.

  Dissectable Human CD ROM
The first commercial product to emerge from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, The Dissectable Human offers 24-bit, digitally photographed axial cross-sections of the male cadaver that are segmented and then volume-rendered into 3-D objects. During digital dissection, major organs can be peeled away or block dissected to reveal internal structure. Additionally, organs and regions can be dissected from non-traditional or even physically impractical perspectives, revealing completely new views of structures.

  McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy is one of the most successful atlases of human anatomy ever published. McMinn's includes a free CD developed by Primal Pictures with seven stunning anatomical animations in QuickTime: Hand, Shoulder, Knee, Foot, Hip, Spine and Head & Neck.

  Adam.com
Adam.com is a syndicator of interactive, engaging health and medical information, offering a wide range of content, services and visual health tools. Adam.com also delivers education products and life science curriculum to K through 12, undergraduate, graduate and professional continuing education markets.

 

Commercial - Research Equipment

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  Visual Anatomy, Limited
Visual Anatomy is the premier site for medical illustration, and a MedExplorer top rated site.

  Genamics
Genamics is a software and web development firm dedicated to empowering researchers with modern and innovative solutions like Genamics Expression 1.1 Sequence Analysis Software for Windows and Genamics Developer, for Microsoft Visual J++ and C# developers.

  Stereology Resource Center
The stereology professionals at the SRC support stereology-related training, books, computerized software, outsourcing, and consulting to scientists in academia, government research, and private industry.

  Elastrat Sarl
Elastrat Sàrl develops, realizes, and distributes human vascular phantoms. Elastrat vascular phantoms have been developed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA, Interventional Neuroradiology.

  Antibody Resource Page
The ARP is a source of information on antibodies for both researchers and educators, providing links to help researchers find specific antibodies, custom antibody suppliers, software, and more.

 

Education - Evolution

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  Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site helps you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.

  FASEB: Evolution Resources
A resource that includes K-12 teaching tools, resources for scientists, statements by scientific societies and other related resources.

  PBS Evolution Library / Teachers and Students
The Evolution project presents an array of resources for learning about and teaching evolution

  National Academies of Science and Engineering
A web page designed to provide easy access to books, position statements, and additional resources on evolution education and research.

  National Center for Science Education
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) defends the teaching of evolution in public schools; a nationally-recognized clearinghouse for information and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom.

 

Education - General

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  Anatomy Interactive
Anatomy Interactive is an academic portal designed to provide students with a common Web-based interface through which they can acquire information about the anatomical sciences. This Web site combines a dynamic electronic newsletter with an interactive, content-driven, organizational structure that provides effective information retrieval and promotes active learning.

  Human Anatomy Online
Study the anatomy of the human body. It's an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

  Body Worlds - The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies
The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies provides unique insights into the healthy and diseased human body, giving the opportunity to study individual, complex, anatomical structures of whole bodies and cross sections. All the bodies on display are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lives that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for qualification and instruction of medical professionals and non-professionals alike. All models look alike and are, essentially, simplified versions of the real thing. The authenticity of the specimen, however, is fascinating and enables the observer to experience the marvel of the real human being.

  Anatomy and Physiology I Web Sites
A cross-section of general Anatomy and Physiology resources available online.

  An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology
Visually Learn About the Human Body Using Our Interactive "Flash" Animations

 

Education - Kids

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  Human Anatomy - About.com
HTML based tutorials on basic cellular anatomy, anatomical terms, physiology, and anatomy of the brain, heart, and blood vessels with hyperlinks branching off to many different areas of interest.

  Brains Rule!
The Brains Rule! website presents neuroscience concepts in a learning format designed to explain, while stimulating the process of inquiry and critical thinking, and provides a means for mentorship by neuroscientists and health professionals, a process fundamental to the success of girls and underrepresented groups in these careers.

  Access Excellence at the National Health Museum
Access Excellence at the National Health Museum is an educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. See their Classrooms of the 21st Century exhibit on science teaching reform.

  Neuroscience for Kids
Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system. Enjoy activities and experiments on your way to learning more about the brain and spinal cord.

  Cell Biology Animations - By John Kyrk
Educated as a biologist and an artist by disposition, John Kirk presents some interesting and appealing animations demonstrating major concepts of cell biology.

 

Education - Students and Professionals

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  Anatomy and Physiology Tests
Over 100 lecture exams with answers on all A&P topics. Includes lab exams, complete lecture outline, learning tips, and interactive Quizzer.

  AAA's Education Section Image Databases
Check out AAA's new Education pages, and click here to access links to a plethora of image databases.

  AnatomyAltases - A digital library
Choose from the following multimedia textbooks: Atlas of Human Anatomy in Cross Section; Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Anatomic Variation.

  Anatomy Teaching in the 21st Century
The aim of this online meeting is to provide a resource that demonstrates the different approaches to teaching human anatomy to Medical and Science students. Each presentation consists of a videoclip supported by a web-based tutorial and then a database of questions and answers from the presentation.

  Human Anatomy Learning Site
From the Dartmouth Medical School, the Human Anatomy Learning Web Site is a work in progress, focusing on the needs of first-time students of human anatomy. Its aim is to help students learn clinically relevant anatomy with maximum efficiency.

 

Education - Summer and Online Courses

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  Dalhousie University Distance Education
Offers Basic Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, and Human Physiology online courses.

  Colorado Community Colleges Online
Human anatomy and physiology courses offered for credit online, with mandatory hands-on lab.

  AAMC's summer makeup course listing of U.S. medical schools
Information about summer school opportunities for medical school course work at US Medical Schools can be found by searching by medical school name, by state, or by subject.

  Ivy Tech Terre Haute online courses
Online (distance education) courses include human anatomy and physiology.

  College of Charleston summer session Human Anatomy course
Summer courses in Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Cell Biology and Marine Biology in Charleston, South Carolina.

 

Government

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  United States Congress
Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online.

  Federal Register online
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) originated from a unique partnership among the public, Congress, and the Department of Defense. After noteworthy success in managing the Breast Cancer Research Program, the CDMRP was tasked to manage research programs in defense women's health, osteoporosis, neurofibromatosis, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer, as well as other specified areas.

  United States Department of Agriculture
Congress.org features an on-line Congressional directory with biographical information about Senators and Representatives. The zip code search allows you to find your Representative.

  Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

  National Library of Medicine
Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S. Simply described, the goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.

 

Image Collections

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  Virtual Organ Library
AAA's new education website offers a virtual organ library of images contributed by its members, plus links to a number of external image databases!

  Anatomy cartoons
Anatomy cartoons and other scientific tomfoolery. With blanket permission to use them for nonprofit purposes.

  Anatomia Collection - Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.

  Fotosearch Stock Medical Photography
Fotosearch Stock Photography allows users to search from 100 top-quality graphics and medical illustration publishers at one site. The Medical category page shows image collections on the following topics: Anatomy, Women's Health, Emergency Medicine, Bioscience, Dentistry, and much more. (See the Science category for more collections related to Biology and Microbiology.)

  Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomy
Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomy

 

Journals

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  Journal of Anatomy
Published monthly by the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of Anatomy covers all aspects of normal human and comparative anatomy including applied anatomy, functional imaging, physical anthropology, neuroanatomy, endocrinology, embryology, stereology, histology, histochemistry and electron microscopy, with special emphasis on experimental morphology.

  Anatomy and Embryology
Tables of contents and abstracts are available on Anatomy and Embryology's website; full text as Acrobat PDF files available to registered users.

  Acta Anatomica
Tables of contents of this journal, which changed its name to Cells Tissues Organs in 1999, are available here.

  Anatomical Record
Journal covering discoveries in cellular, molecular, and evolutionary biology - an Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists.

  Annals of Anatomy
The official journal of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, Annals of Anatomy is published in English and German. The journal is open to original papers from the fields of anatomy, topographic and clinical anatomy, and embryology. Contributions dealing with various aspects of the microscopical and submicroscopical organization of biological structures including reports from the fields of comparative and experimental cell and tissue research are also published.

 

Link Collections

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  Shuster's Anatomy and Physiology Links
This collection of links to anatomy and physiology, cellular chemistry, and environmental science quizzes, reviews, and professional resources is geared towards students.

  Anatomy and Physiology Tutoring Links: University of Houston


  MedWebPlus Anatomy Sites


  Joe Buenker's Anatomy, Gross Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Embryology, and Histology Links


  Computational Neuroscience on the Web
This site provides an annotated index for computational neurobiology, focusing on compartmental modeling and realistic simulations of biological neural systems. There are links to software reviews, major laboratories, researchers, conferences, education and funding for theoretical neurobiology.

 

Plagairism

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  Turnitin.com


  Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc.


  12,000 Papers
12,000 papers sells example term papers.

  Plagiarism.org


  WordCHECK by KeyWORD Software
WordCHECK is a commercial software for researching and reviewing intellectual property expressed in digital document formats.

 

Public Policy

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  NIH Offices of Public Liason
Public Liaison Offices have been set up in each Institute and Center (where they did not already exist) and in the Office of the NIH Director, where the existing Office of Communications has been reorganized and renamed the NIH Office of Communications and Public Liaison. They conduct outreach to constituency groups and serve as a contact point for the public, especially with regard to policy matters. The Director's Council of Public Representatives offers a public forum for discussing such key NIH issues as priority setting, clinical trials and managed care, privacy and genetics, and health disparities among various populations. COPR members review and advise on NIH priorities and mechanisms for public input to NIH decisions.

  American Association of Anatomists' Public Policy Resource
Don't forget to check out AAA's public policy page, also linked from the sidebar menu.

  Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding
This coalition organized in support of increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.

  Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation
The mission of Americans for Medical Progress is to ensure that the public supports the vital role of animals in medical research, and that scientists are able to continue their quest for cures and improved methods of treatment for illness, injury and disease.

  Research!America
Research!America is the nation's leading non-profit, non-partisan voice for making medical and health research a higher national priority.

 

Willed Body Donation

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  UCSF Willed Body page


  Donor Programs directory at Albany Medical College
This directory lists U.S. medical schools that have willed body donation programs.

  Willed Body Program at University of Texas Health Science Center


  Donate Life - Coalition on Donation
This website offers information to prospective donors on how to become a donor, how to promote donation, and how African American and Hispanic populations are impacted by organ and tissue donation rates.

  TransWeb .. all about transplantation and donation


  United Network for Organ Sharing
UNOS is a non-profit, scientific, and educational organization* that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), established by the U.S. Congress in 1984.

  Body Donation Programs in the United States
A geographical listing by state of willed body donation programs maintained by the University of Florida State Anatomical Board.



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