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Revision as of 12:59, 26 September 2016

NSC 110H Fall 2016
Unique #47384
Monday 4–5 PM
PAI 5.42
Professor: Barrick

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Course Outline

# Date Topic
Intro Aug 29 Recombinant DNA Technology
Sept 5 Labor Day: No Class
1 Sept 12 Dual-Use Research
2 Sept 19 Class Cancelled
3 Sept 26 Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Biology versus Bioterrorism
4 Oct 3 Lab-Made versus GMO Food
5 Oct 10 Probiotics versus Microbiome Engineering
6 Oct 17 Biofuels versus Fossil Fuels
7 Oct 24 Gene Drives: Mosquito Extinction versus Tropical Diseases
8 Oct 31 Personalized Medicine: Precision versus Privacy
9 Nov 7 Gene Therapy versus Human Genome Editing
10 Nov 14 Stem Cell Therapies versus Artificial Organs
11 Nov 21 Conventional Drug Development versus Self-Experimentation
12 Nov 28 Conservation Biology versus De-extinction
13 Dec 5 The Origin of Life: Recreating it in the Lab

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Previous version of this course: NSC110H Biotechnology and Society - Dean's Scholars Seminar (Fall 2013)