HST.510 | Fall 2005 | Graduate

Genomics, Computing, Economics, and Society

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 …
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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Lecture Notes
Illustration of human figure and internal organs.
Personalized medicine is the diagnosis and treatment of patients using knowledge of characteristics that are unique to a given a patient, such as genotype and personal history. (Figure courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)