MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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7.345 The War on Superbugs: Antibiotic Development and the Emergence of Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Fall 2015
(2015-12)Bacteria and fungi have produced antibiotics, small molecules that can prevent the growth of or kill bacteria by inhibiting essential biological pathways, as a defense mechanism long before humans walked the earth. The ... -
7.345 The Science of Sperm, Fall 2014
(2014-12)Sperm are tiny, haploid cells with a supremely important job: They deliver the paternal genome to the egg, helping create a zygote that develops into a new individual. For a human male, however, only a small fraction of ... -
7.345 Non-coding RNAs: Junk or Critical Regulators in Health and Disease?, Spring 2012
(2012-06)Every time we scientists think that we have dissected the precise biological nature of a process, an incidental finding, a brilliantly designed experiment, or an unexpected result can turn our world upside down. Until ...