MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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7.347 Peptides as Biological Signaling Molecules and Novel Drugs, Spring 2016
(2016-06)How do we sense hunger? How do we sense pain? What causes growth in our bodies? How are we protected from pathogens? The answer to many of these questions involves small polymers of amino acids known as peptides. Peptides ... -
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 ...