Sítio das Doenças Respiratórias DGS

A Direcção Geral de Saúde apoia o projecto de divulgação de informação sobre Doenças Respiratórias, em particular a asma. Chama-se o Sítio das Doenças Respiratórias.
O site divide-se em 3 áreas diferentes com informação diferente para os seguintes públicos: crianças, doentes e educadores e especialistas de saúde.

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Heartmold

Cirkus' Animation ABC - How IT works

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Once upon a time...life

Once Upon a Time Life
 

Albert Barillé's animation series have already in over three decades reached a legendary status. They have introduced us to mankinds history, space, great inventions and explorers. With easily adoptable and enthralling story telling these adventure animations have not only educated but also left a memorable mark in children's minds from over the decades. In this third part of the "Once Upon a Time..." -series we take a dive inside the human body. We grow familiar, for example, with white blood cells - the tiny police inside our vains - and with the functions of brain and heart.

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Stop Mr. HIV

Cool animations about HIV that explain in a simple way how it infects humans and how to prevent.

To learn more see here

Hagop Kaneboughazian

The art and science of 3D animation

"Hagop Kaneboughazian (Kane) has been captivated by the beauty and magic of animation since childhood.Today Kane is the Animation Director at Viscira, a San Francisco based creative agency specializing in interactive solutions for clients in the pharmaceutical industry.  On a daily basis he oversees the creation of complex animations featuring cellular and molecular components."

To see more of his work, click here

Stanford Medicine Gallery

Stanford University Medical Center integrates research, medical education and patient care at its three institutions: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

This photo stream is published by the School of Medicine's Office of Communication and Public Affairs.

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Photo Albuns:

- Crocodile mummy

- 3D Radiology

- Medical Mysteries

- 40 years of Heart transplants

- Italian Anatomical waxworks

- The Basset Collection

EM Navigator - 3D Electron Microscopy Data Navigator

EM Navigator is...

web site to browse 3D electron microscopy (3D-EM) data of biological molecules and assemblies,

based on EMDB and PDB data, (statistics)

for non-specialists, beginners, and experts in 3D-EM or structural/molecular biology,

run by PDBj.

Tempos modernos...

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments

JoVe is the first PubMed-indexed video methods journal in biology.

Other Data Visualization Software DIY

Flare: Data Visualization for the Web

Protovis: A graphical approach to visualization

Prefuse: Information visualization toolkit

Comics and Medicine

Medical narrative in Graphic Novels.

See Graphic Medicine!

Life Science Visualization Industry

A wonderful Blog of a friend of mine about the Global distribution of all the Life Science Visualization Companies associated with research departments.

Interactive Biochemical Animations WILEY

Wiley has created a website with interactive animations about Biochemistry.

Many of the interactive animations presented here promotes the visual conceptualization of complex biochemical processes. Others provide students with fun, innovative ways of learning and remembering important biochemical concepts.

Fold it - Solve Puzzles for Science

”A ‘head-fake,’  occurs when someone is taught a deeper lesson under the pretense of learning something simple — when a high school football player learns determination, teamwork, and perseverance while seeming to learn a proper three-point stance, for instance.” – Randy Pausch

Molecular Maya

In Silico: 3D Animation and Simulation of Cell Biology with Maya and MEL

 

Journalism in the Age of Data

A video report on Data Visualization as a stroytelling medium.

Produced during a 2009-2010 Knight Journalism Fellowship.

ManyEyes: Data Visualization for the Public

IBM Research's free tool ManyEyes enables users to upload data files and generate a wide range of visualizations, from simple charts and graphs to more sophisticated forms like treemaps and network diagrams. Launched in January 2007, the site now counts some 60,000 user-created visualizations of numeric and textual data. A version of the site was launched on The New York Times' website as a "visualization lab", furnished with data sets compiled by The Times.

Want to learn Photoshop?

www.digitaltutors.com

Oxygen por Christopher Hendryx:

Cool animation about Oxygen!

Click on the image:

Grade Guru - Partilha de Notas!

GradeGuru is a knowledge sharing network where university students can publish their course notes, study together, build their academic reputations and earn rewards.

See here how!

1º Site Português de Vacinas

O site, www.vacinas.com.pt, desenvolvido pelo laboratório farmacêutico especializado em vacinas Sanofi Pasteur MSD, tem o apoio da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria (SPP), de peritos, universidades, sociedades científicas e entidades nacionais da área da saúde.

Blog Art + Books + Ciência

The new blog from "NewScientist" magazine where books, arts and science collide.

A New Way to lecture

Using Web 2.0 to create interactive lectures with your students (Prezi, Animoto)
See here

Visualizing Information

Mapas visuais de vários temas.

Exemplo: Forma de visualizar quais os suplementos que têm (ou não) efeitos benéficos cientificamente comprovados (quando usados em conjunto com uma dieta equilibrada):

 Para mais informações sobre o autor vejam o vídeo na TED

"Mercury" Medical Research and Writing

A Mercury é uma empresa de médicos feita para médicos. Está sediada em Nova Iorque mas mais recentemente entrou na Europa. Apresentam vários serviços desde consultadoria a escrita de artigos científicos (analisam dados, lêem a literatura, etc) "poupando" o trabalho ao médico.

Desta forma, precisam de gerar gráficos e ilustrações para acompanhar a escrita. Como a especialidade deles é a escrita, penso que as ilustrações são pedidas a empresas externas. A ilustração 2D de artigos científicos é também uma outra forma de negócio.

Science Office

 COMUNICAÇÃO DE CIÊNCIA

 

Veja 1 minuto de astronomia aqui

Gobius e o Planeta Energia

A Gobius é uma empresa multidisciplinar de comunicação e ciência, constituída por biólogos, actores, músicos, designers, ilustradores e fotógrafos.

A empresa lançou este ano o produto Planeta Energia. O Planeta Energia” tira partido de uma plataforma educativa na internet e de um plano de comunicação diversificado para ensinar as crianças dos 4 aos 7 anos de idade os temas Energia e Alterações Climáticas.O processo comunicativo baseia-se na transmissão de uma mensagem simplificada e sensorialmente atractiva para as crianças: animação, teatro virtual interactivo e jogos.

As 12 curtas metragens de animação do Planeta Energia passaram na televisão, no canal  SIC K em Março deste ano.

Green Project Award

Os "Green Project Awards" são o prémio de referência a nível nacional na área do Desenvolvimento Sustentável.

Distinguem e reconhecem as melhores práticas em projectos que promovem e valorizam a sustentabilidade, isto é,que sejam economicamente responsáveis, socialmente inclusivos e ambientalmente positivos.

Immersive Film Festival 2011

O Planetário do Centro Multimeios de Espinho organiza de 2 em 2 anos o Immersive Film Festival (IFF), onde os filmes são projectados numa cúpula a 360 graus em torno do público.

A competição é composta por 25 curtas-metragens de animação, imagem real e 3-D. A duração máxima é de cinco minutos. O director do IFF diz que este tipo de produção cinematográfica nasceu com a astronomia e por isso este é um tema recorrente nas obras exibidas. “Temos muitos filmes sobre estrelas e buracos negros, mas também outras obras sem cariz científico, mais virados para a arte e o entretenimento".

Syyn Labs: Tecnologia + Arte

Syyn Labs was formed in 2008 by a group of creative engineers who twist together art and technology. We build gizmos, whatzits, and interactive installations that encourage strangers to play together by lowering social barriers.

http://syynlabs.com/

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Para mais informações sobre o último trabalho: TED Talks

Jogo de Cartas para Educação Médica

A empresa Nerdcore Learning lançou há pouco tempo um jogo de cartas ao estilo "Magic: The Gathering" doenças infecciosas. O jogo chama-se Healing Blade e foi desenvolvido por dois médicos para ajudar os estudantes de medicina a aprender de forma divertida como tratar infecções bacterianas com os fármacos correctos. sobre

Os jogadores podem escolher ser os "bons da fita" e controlam personagens com nomes de antibióticos como Chloramphenicol, enquanto os "maus da fita" controlam "monstros" que são nada mais do que as principais bactérias que se encontram nos hospitais e laboratórios de todo o mundo, com nomes como Clostridium perfringens e Enterococcus fecalis.

O jogo já vendeu bastantes exemplares.

Fonte: The Scientist

Mapas Visuais

Visual Complexity

Game about Physics

is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Watch the video!

SteffenVFX

SteffenVFX

The Boston 100k ArtScience Innovation Prize

Le Laboratoire, Paris

 Le Laboratoire, located in Paris’s first arrondissement, invites the public to experience the creative process that drives innovation and value in culture as in industry, society, and education as a fusion of art and of science producing tangible – if transient – art and design outcomes.  These outcomes or “works-in-progress” result from experiments conceived of and led by leading international artists in collaboration with leading international scientists.  Le Lab is a kind of off-Broadway, or pre-museum, aiming to catalyze change in culture, industry, society and education with partners who invest in the exploration process more decidedly than in the guarantee of any outcome this process might produce.

ArtScience Labs

3D structure determination from a single view

"The ability to determine the structure of matter in three dimensions has profoundly advanced our understanding of nature. Traditionally, the most widely used schemes for three-dimensional (3D) structure determination of an object are implemented by acquiring multiple measurements over various sample orientations, as in the case of crystallography and tomography, or by scanning a series of thin sections through the sample, as in confocal microscopy. Here we present a 3D imaging modality, termed ankylography (derived from the Greek words ankylos meaning ‘curved’ and graphein meaning ‘writing’), which under certain circumstances enables complete 3D structure determination from a single exposure using a monochromatic incident beam. 3D image reconstruction in ankylography proceeds by means of an iterative algorithm. With further development, this approach of obtaining complete 3D structure information from a single view could find broad applications in the physical and life sciences."

Artigo publicado na revista Nature, 14 Janeiro 2010

Street Anatomy: Medicine + Art + Design

STREET ANATOMY

Molecular Maya Toolkit

Excerto do artigo de 11 Dezembro de 2009 da revista Nature sobre animação molecular:

"McGill announced free software called Molecular Maya Toolkit that allows researchers to automatically bring protein structures into a cellular landscape using data from online repositories. Meeting attendee Patrick Huehls of Indiana University in Bloomington believes the toolkit will be highly used, and not only by those hoping to bring science to nonexperts. Scientists themselves are coming to depend on animation, he says. "It's becoming more part of discovery than an endpoint."