Biosciences Index http://golgi.harvard.edu/htbin/biopages
Allows searching by keyword and provides an alphabetical list of links for specialties within the biosciences.
Pasteur Institute http://web.pasteur.fr/search/
Allows keyword searches of the Pasteur Institute's server and many other English-language-based bioscience servers.
WWW Virtual Library—Biosciences http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.html
Categorizes information by provider and subject. A good place to begin research, this site includes many links to journals, FTP sites, and subdisciplines.
Human Genome Project http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/index.html
The homepage for this important research project; situated at the National Institutes of Health.
National Science Foundation: Biology http://www.nsf.gov/home/bio/start.htm
The site of the primary government agency funding scientific research. Allows a search of its Biology Directorate's sources and includes links to online documents, grants, and specific fields within biology.
Centers for Disease Control http://ftp.cdc.gov/
The homepage of the famous virus hunters, with links to what they do, to search facilities, to other sites, and to a wide range of useful government data.
National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
The central government organization dealing with health issues; site includes news, health information, grant descriptions, and links to scientific resources and to NIH suborganizations.