The Blood Typing Game

What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Even though a patient's own blood type is the first choice for blood transfusions, it's not always available at the blood bank. Try to save some patients' lives and learn about human blood types!

The Blood Typing Game is produced in-house by Nobel Media to further explain the benefits of Nobel Prize awarded achievements for a younger audience.

The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills. Since its creation in 1997, it has logged over 175,000 visits.

This virtual lab teaches the procedures of performing an ELISA test to determine whether a particular antibody is present in a patient's blood sample.

This virtual lab will familiarize you with the science and techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequences.

This interactive focuses on the roles of germline and somatic cell mutations in human disease. It supports the 2013 Holiday Lectures on Science, Medicine in the Genomic Era.

Explore the similarities and differences of a variety of viruses by sorting them based on structure, genomic make-up, host range, transmission mechanism, and vaccine availability.

A brief discussion of what makes a virus a retrovirus, and how they differ from other types of viruses.

An overview of the immune system, concentrating on the roles played by B and T lymphocytes, and the antigen-presentation system.

Do you think that determining an individual's gender should be straighforward? Can you think of a single test or examination that can unambiguously identify a person's gender? What happens if various tests disagree?

Try this interactive exploration that challenges you to determine whether an athlete is qualified to compete as a female. Along the way you may gain some understanding of the biology of sex and in particular how sex is determined in humans.

Transgenic organisms, which contain DNA that is inserted experimentally, are used to study many biological processes. In this lab, you will create a transgenic fly to study circadian rhythms.

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You are a virtual intern, accompanying a doctor who is examining three different patients. Each patient is examined using more than one diagnostic tool, and at each stage, the doctor will invite you to examine the patient yourself and ask for your opinion.

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Inject fluorescent dyes into the neurons to visualize their morphology. Identify the neurons based on the morphology and the response to stimuli, comparing them to previously published results.

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