MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
7.345 Survival in Extreme Conditions: The Bacterial Stress Response, Fall 2010
(2010-12)Bacteria survive in almost all environments on Earth, including some considered extremely harsh. From the steaming hot springs of Yellowstone to the frozen tundra of the arctic to the barren deserts of Chile, microbes have ... -
7.345 Using Simple Organisms to Model Human Diseases, Spring 2013
(2013-06)How do scientists discover the basic biology underlying human diseases? Simple organisms such as baker’s yeast, nematodes, fruit flies, zebrafish, mice and rats have allowed biologists to investigate disease at ...