Links for Big Picture: The Cell

Want more to explore what else the internet has to offer about the cell? We've compiled a list of links to relevant videos, games, teaching resources and other organisations to help.

Don't forget that the videos made to accompany 'Big Picture' are available on the Wellcome Trust YouTube channel, which also includes interviews with Wellcome Trust-funded scientists about their work. The Wellcome Film YouTube channel contains hours of archived medical film from the 20th century.

Videos

• YouTube video showing the stages of mitosis in 3D (duration: 1 min 22)
• Animated movie from University of Utah about cell communication (4:34)
• Teachers TV video that discusses the potential use of stem cell therapy to treat Parkinson’s Disease (15:00)
• BBC Learning Zone clip about stem cell research and health (4:50)
• BBC Learning Zone clip about cell division (1:03)
• BBC Learning Zone clip about the functions of different cells (2:29)

Games

• Cure Asif’s cancer, a game from Centre of the Cell where you design a chemical to help cure a patient of cancer
• Cell turnover, a game from Centre of the Cell where you can see how quickly different cell types divide
• Explore a cell, a game from Centre of the Cell that allows you to see inside a cell and explore the functions of the organelles

Resources for teachers

• Microscopes for Schools, an online resource for children, teachers, parents and scientists to set up their own activities with microscopes
• BBSRC stem cells and ethics pack for schools
• I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here debate kits on stem cells to use in the classroom
• Exploring the Cell from the American Society of Cell Biology [PDF 1.9MB]
• Further animations and online resources from the American Society of Cell Biology
• Animation on cancer from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Nikon’s Microscopy U, site for microscopy education by Nikon
• PowerPoint slideset about microscopy from the University of Leicester [PDF 2.7MB]
• Cell size and scale, interactive by the University of Utah
• Cells alive! Animation on size
• Medical Research Council Teaching resources and a virtual experiment about stem cells

Other relevant organisations

• British Society for Cell Biology
• British Society for Developmental Biology
• Biochemical Society
• Centre of the Cell
• National Centre for Biotechnology Education
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Inside Cancer website
• American Society for Cell Biology
• BioChem 4 Schools
• Biology4All
• Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes: section on metabolic pathways
• Anthony Nolan