BIOL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Craig Mello, Andrew Fire, Human Cloning
19 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Ananna kazi: organ transplant: supply is smaller than the demand. 3d printer: print 3d artificial tissue, can"t print heart. Stem cells: move kidney cell and stem cell from the patient. Dod: biotech, people die, keep their organs for future: nano-medicine and immuno-oncology: devolope drug that cures only the cancer cells, nothing else, antibody can do that, but nano does in very small cells. Take a nano-medicine in a part of the body for imaging. Antibodies to treat diseases: looking for proteins, also treat diseases: ra, cancer-> immuno- oncology: synthetic biology: engineering discipline of the synthesis of complex biologically inspired system-> unique functions. Lab on a chip: a very small, disposable, and transportable chamber that relies on microfluidics-> Thin xxs is a company that makes these chips. Sepsis in infants: preventing inherited diseases: mitochondrial diseases. All mito you have came from your mother: don"t have children.
