MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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7.341 The DNA Damage Response as a Target for Anti-Cancer Therapy, Fall 2008
(2008-12)Cellular responses to DNA damage constitute one of the most important fields in cancer biology. In this class we will analyze classical and recent papers from the primary research literature to gain a profound understand ... -
7.341 Brightening up Life: Harnessing the Power of Fluorescence Imaging to Observe Biology in Action, Fall 2006
(2006-12)One summer in the 1960s a young Japanese researcher, with the help of a few high school students, chopped up ten thousand jellyfish. As a by-product of this harvest, they isolated a green fluorescent protein (GFP). Since ... -
7.342 The RNA Revolution: At the Frontiers of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Fall 2016
(2016-12)In this course, we will investigate the diverse types and functions of different RNA species, with a focus on "non-coding RNAs," i.e. those that do not directly encode proteins. The course will convey both the ...