Drug Design
Latest drug development and technology news from DrugDevelopment-Technology.com
http://www.drugdevelopment-technology.com/
Structure-based drug design from Chemical and Engineering News
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/83/i48/html/8348sci1.html
The path to new medical products from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/criticalpath/whitepaper.html
Drug research and development from The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
http://www.phrma.org/
Techniques to determine protein structure
X-ray crystallography from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography
NMR Spectroscopy from Michigan State University
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm
Mass Spectrometry from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
http://www.asms.org/whatisms/index.html
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldi
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/Antibiotics_Attack/frameset.html
Mechanisms through which common antibiotics work from Elmhurst College
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/654antibiotic.html
Antibiotic resistance of bacteria in rivers in the United States from the CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol8no7/01-0264.htm
Images of antibiotics (crystals) from Molecular Expressions
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/pharm/antibiotic/antibiotic.html
Protein structure and function
Basic concepts of protein structure from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb1/part2/protein.htm
Detailed information about the biochemistry of proteins from BioChemWeb.org
http://www.biochemweb.org/proteins.shtml
Background on the immune system, genetics, microbiology and biochemistry
How pathogens invade the immune system from American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/14385/page/1
Immune system lectures and supplemental materials from HHMI
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/immunology/index.html
Basics of DNA, genes and genetics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
Microbiology lectures from the University of Maryland
http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/bsci424/BSCI223WebSiteFiles/LectureList.htm
Detailed biochemistry background at The Medical Biochemistry Page
http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html
