External Resources

Government Resources

• National Institute of Health (NIH)
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics: Bioethics resources
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• NIH Clinical Trials Search
• The President's Council on Bioethics
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission
• USDA Biotechnology Permits
• Food and Drug Administration
• Centers for Disease Control
• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy Genome Programs
• DOE Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• UN Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service
• United States Patent Office: Patent classification system
  • Drug, Bio-Affecting, and Body Treating Compositions: Class 424
  • Drug, Bio-Affecting, and Body Treating Compositions: Class 514 (subclass of 424)
  • Medical or Lab Equipment: D24
  • Molecular Biology and Microbiology: 435
  • Multicellular Living Organisms and Unmodified Parts Thereof and Related: 800
  • Organic Compounds and Derivatives: 532-570
  • Peptide or Protein Sequence: 930
  • Plant: PLT
  • Surgery: 600-607

Academic Resources

• Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Virtual Mentor - AMA ethics journal
• American Journal of Bioethics
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Nature
• Nature Biotechnology
• Nature Genetics
• Science Magazine
• Caltech - Beckman Institute
• Harvard Medical School
• Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
• MIT - Whitehead Institute
• Princeton University - Lewis-Sigler Institute
• Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL)

Non-Government Organizations and Industry Watchdogs

• AgBioWorld
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• GeneWatch
• Greenpeace - Genetic Engineering

Corporate Resources

• Affymetrix
• Amgen
• Applera
• Aventis
• Celera Genomics
• Centocor
• Genzyme
• Genentech
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Johnson and Johnson
• Merck
• Monsanto
• Novartis
• Pfizer
• Roche
• Serono
• Sarnoff Corporation - SRI spinoff
• RegSource.com - Comprehensive News, Regulations, and Forms
• Clinical Trials Listing Service

Directories

• Biotechnology Information at the Web Virtual Library
• Dennis Kennedy Law Firm - Bioinformatics Law
• BioSpace - news and more
• Clickable maps of biotech hotbeds: Northern California Bay, Southern California, Boston, New York, Washington DC