Life Sciences Courses
Today, Life Sciences topics and tools are present in almost all disciplines of science and technology. MIT is the leader in interdisciplinary Life Sciences research and education, and multiple departments offer majors and minors that have a Life Sciences focus. We present here a set of MIT courses that are Life Sciences-based. Pursuing an education in Life Sciences is both exciting and challenging, and we hope you experience both in viewing this collation!
Courses by Department
- Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Anthropology
- Biological Engineering
- Biology
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Engineering Systems Division
- Health Sciences and Technology
- Video lectures
- Audio lectures
- Selected video lectures
- Selected audio lectures
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16.423J | Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering | Spring 2006 | |
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16.456J | Biomedical Signal and Image Processing | Spring 2007 |
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21A.215 | Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health | Fall 2008 | |
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21A.216J | Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? | Spring 2005 | |
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21A.355J | The Anthropology of Biology | Spring 2009 | |
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21A.830J | History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology | Spring 2009 |
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| 10.010J | Introduction to Bioengineering (BE.010J) | Spring 2006 | ||
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10.442 | Biochemical Engineering | Spring 2005 | |
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10.445 | Separation Processes for Biochemical Products | Summer 2005 | |
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10.537 | Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics (BE.410J) | Spring 2003 | |
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10.538J | Biomolecular Kinetics and Cellular Dynamics (BE.420J) | Fall 2004 | |
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10.539J | Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems (BE.430J) | Fall 2004 | |
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10.543J | Protein Folding Problem | Fall 2007 | |
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10.547J | Principles and Practice of Drug Development | Fall 2005 | |
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10.548J | Tumor Pathophysiology and Transport Phenomena | Fall 2005 | |
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10.702 | Experimental Biology & Communication | Spring 2005 | |
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10.702CI | Experimental Biology - Communications Intensive | Spring 2005 |
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5.08J | Biological Chemistry II | Spring 2004 | |
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5.22J | Biological Engineering Design | Spring 2010 | |
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5.36 | Biochemistry Laboratory | Spring 2009 | |
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5.44 | Organometallic Chemistry | Fall 2004 | |
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5.451 | Chemistry of Biomolecules I | Fall 2005 | |
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5.46 | Organic Structure Determination | Spring 2007 | |
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5.48J | Protein Folding Problem | Fall 2007 | |
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5.601J | Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems | Fall 2005 | |
| 5.95J | Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering | Spring 2009 |
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1.018J | Ecology I: The Earth System | Fall 2009 | |
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1.020 | Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability | Spring 2008 | |
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1.081J | Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J) | Spring 2005 | |
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1.084J | Systems Microbiology | Fall 2006 | |
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1.725J | Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport | Fall 2004 | |
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1.814J | Systems Perspectives on Industrial Ecology | Spring 2006 | |
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1.85 | Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering | Spring 2006 | |
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1.89 | Environmental Microbiology | Fall 2004 |
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12.000 | Solving Complex Problems | Fall 2009 | |
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12.007 | Geobiology | Spring 2009 | |
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12.085 | Seminar in Environmental Science | Spring 2008 | |
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12.102 | Environmental Earth Science | Fall 2005 | |
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12.103 | Strange Bedfellows: Science and Environmental Policy | Fall 2005 |
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ESD.053J | Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J) | Spring 2005 | |
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ESD.123J | Systems Perspectives on Industrial Ecology | Spring 2006 | |
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ESD.65J | Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering | Spring 2006 |
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24.06J | Bioethics | Spring 2009 | |
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24.08J | Philosophical Issues in Brain Science | Spring 2009 | |
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24.904J | Language Acquisition | Fall 2001 | |
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24.905J | Psycholinguistics | Spring 2005 | |
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24.907J | Abnormal Language | Fall 2004 | |
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24.941J | The Lexicon and Its Features | Spring 2007 | |
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24.945J | Language Processing | Fall 2004 | |
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24.949J | Language Acquisition I | Spring 2002 | |
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24.966J | Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech | Fall 2005 | |
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24.968J | Speech Communication | Spring 2004 |
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3.034 | Organic & Biomaterials Chemistry | Fall 2005 | |
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3.051J | Materials for Biomedical Applications | Spring 2006 | |
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3.052 | Nanomechanics of Materials and Biomaterials | Spring 2007 | |
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3.053J | Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics | Fall 2006 | |
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3.560J | Systems Perspectives on Industrial Ecology | Spring 2006 | |
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3.961J | Design of Medical Devices and Implants | Spring 2006 | |
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3.962J | Molecular Principles of Biomaterials | Spring 2006 | |
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3.96J | Biomaterials-Tissue Interactions | Fall 2009 | |
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3.97J | Cell-Matrix Mechanics | Spring 2004 |
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| 18.094J | Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering | Spring 2009 |
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22.55J | Principles of Radiation Interactions | Fall 2004 | |
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22.561J | Magnetic Resonance Analytic, Biochemical, and Imaging Techniques | Spring 2006 | |
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22.56J | Noninvasive Imaging in Biology and Medicine | Fall 2005 |
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8.261J | Introduction to Computational Neuroscience | Spring 2004 | |
| 8.395J | Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering | Spring 2009 | ||
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8.591J | Systems Biology | Fall 2004 | |
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8.592J | Statistical Physics in Biology | Spring 2005 | |
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8.594J | Introduction to Neural Networks | Spring 2005 |
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STS.005 | Disease and Society in America | Fall 2005 | |
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STS.006J | Bioethics | Spring 2009 | |
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STS.010 | Neuroscience and Society | Spring 2010 | |
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STS.060J | The Anthropology of Biology | Spring 2009 | |
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STS.330J | History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology | Spring 2009 | |
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STS.449J | Introduction to Global Medicine: Bioscience, Technologies, Disparities, Strategies | Spring 2010 | |
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STS.449J | Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech | Fall 2005 |
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15.136J | Principles and Practice of Drug Development | Fall 2005 |
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SP.622J | Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? | Spring 2005 |
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11.122 | Environment and Society | Fall 2002 |
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WGS.622J | Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? | Spring 2005 |
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21W.746 | Humanistic Perspectives on Medicine: From Ancient Greece to Modern America | Spring 2005 |


