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Neuronal and glial cell biology Molecular clocks Web alert Julian F Burke*, Kathleen M Wets? and Philip J Benson1 A selection

of World Wide Web sites

published

relevant

to the reviews

of Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

in this issue

Molecular

Motors

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An attractive Addresses *Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BNl 9GG, UK; e-mail: [email protected] Current Biology Ltd, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London Wl P 6LE, UK; e-mail: [email protected] :University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK; e-mail: [email protected]; URL: http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/-pjb/ Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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to anybody

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of Kinesin

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page

of the Web

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and software

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for visualising

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company

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for example,

as well as articles

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as well as links

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ScienceNet,

questions,

contains

such as ‘How

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from the public on-line with their the response does the brain

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of methods

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cell lines, and a particularly

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for making fluorescently

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in medical experiments, ScienceNet: The Brain and Nervous System http://www.sciencenet.org.uWdatabase/Biology/Lists/

of the

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