RSS feeds.
Once again, this is just a recommendation for you as a way to stay current on items without
having to go to the webpages themselves. Only do this on your home computer, for it would not
make sense to do this on a lab computer and it will not allow you to install a program on them
anyway.
If you have IE7, use the built in RSS reader function, it is simple and should suffice for what you
need.
If you do not have IE7, either upgrade or look to install a stand alone program for the RSS
feeds. One in particular that I found that seems pretty good is RSS Bandit.
Here is the download site: http://www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp?DownLoad
It will install a .zip file. Unzip this and continue with the install. Once the install is done and you
open the program, it should look something like this:
My suggestion is to go through the feeds and get rid of the ones you do not want. Under “My
Feeds”, right-click on the feed you don’t want and select “Delete feed”
To subscribe select “New…” and a wizard will pop up and guide you through the process. You
will need to paste in a URL and it will search for a RSS feed on that site.
Continue to push “next”. You can name it what you want, but the feeds I will give to you will not
require a username and password.
Good luck with this.
Here are some sites that may be of interest to you: You should be able to copy and paste these
into the wizard.
http://feeds.acs.org/acs/bipret
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbiotechnol/rss/
http://www.nature.com/nbt/current_issue/rss/index.html
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/rss/
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/biotechnology/index.html?rss=1
http://www.sciencedaily.com/newsfeed.xml
http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/39/1439.xml
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotScience
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_health.rss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml