MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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7.347 Fueling Sustainability: Engineering Microbial Systems for Biofuel Production, Spring 2011
(2011-06)The need to identify sustainable forms of energy as an alternative to our dependence on depleting worldwide oil reserves is one of the grand challenges of our time. The energy from the sun converted into plant biomass is ... -
7.347 Living Dangerously: How the Immune System Maintains Peace with Trillions of Commensal Bacteria while Preventing Pathogenic Invasions, Fall 2015
(2015-12)In this course, we will examine how the immune system acts to destroy pathogenic invaders while tolerating colonization by necessary commensal bacteria. As a counterpoint, we will also explore sophisticated strategies that ... -
7.349 Stem Cells: A Cure or Disease?, Spring 2011
(2011-06)Have you ever considered going to a pharmacy to order some new cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) for your ailing heart? It might sound crazy, but recent developments in stem cell science have made this concept not so ...