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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • HST.510 (Fall 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Genomics, Computing, Economics, and Society 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Health Sciences and Technology 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. George Church

    Teaching Fellows:
    Shawn Douglas
    Alexander Wait
    Jeremy Zucker 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • HST.510 Genomics, Computing, Economics, and Society



    Fall 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features a selection of downloadable lecture notes and a bibliography of readings.


    Course Description


    This course will focus on understanding aspects of modern technology displaying exponential growth curves and the impact on global quality of life through a weekly updated class project integrating knowledge and providing practical tools for political and business decision-making concerning new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, and stem cells. Interplays of economic, ethical, ecological, and biophysical modeling will be explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports.
     

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