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Honors Collegium 70A
Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Law, & Agriculture
Winter 2003
Professor Bob Goldberg
Course Documents
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| Units: | 5.0 | |||||
| Lectures: | Tues & Thurs : 3:00 - 5:50 PM | |||||
| Discussions: | Wed
: 2:00 - 3:50 PM Wed : 4:00 - 5:50 PM |
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| Location: | Life Sciences 2320 | |||||
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| Class Syllabus | ||||||
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Class Handouts (These files are very big. It will take a while to open.) |
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Learning Unit 1: The Age of DNA - What is Genetic Engineering? |
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Learning Unit 3: How Are Genes Cloned & Engineered: The Nuts & Bolts |
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Learning Unit 5: Science & the Constitution: Who Owns Our Genes? |
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Learning Unit 6: How is the Human Genome Organized & What Changes Can Occur? |
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Learning Unit 7: Detecting Changes in the Human Genome - Are There Races? |
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One: The Basics of Genetic Engineering
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Stanley N.
Cohen |
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Two: Using Genes to Make Drugs
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Walter Gilbert
and Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Useful Proteins From Recombinant Bacteria. Scientific American, April, 1980, 242 (4), 74-94. |
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William
A. Haseltine
Discovering New Genes For Medicine. Scientific American, March, 1997, 276 (3), 92-97. |
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Three: Using Animals as Drug Factories
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William
H. Velander, Henryk Lubon, and William N. Drohan
Transgenic Livestock as Drug Factories. Scientific American, January 1997, 276 (1), 70-74. |
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Four: Using Plants as Factories for Drugs and Plastics
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Tillman
U. Gerngross and Steven C. Slater
How Green Are Green Plastics? Scientific American, August, 2000, 283 (2), 37-41. |
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Week Five: Identifying and Testing for Human Disease
Genes
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Michael J. Welsh and
Alan E. Smith |
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Ray White and Jean-Marc
Lalouel |
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Week Six: Using DNA Testing in the Courtroom
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Peter J. Neufeld
and Neville Colman
When Science Takes the Witness Stand. Scientific American, May, 1990, 262 (5), 46-53. |
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Jerry Adler and John
McCormick
The DNA Detectives. Newsweek, November 16, 1998, pg. 64-71 (public domain). |
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Barbara Murray and
Brian Duffy
Jefferson's Secret Life. U.S. News & World Report, November 9, 1998 (public domain). |
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Seven: Embryonic Stem Cells and Human Cloning
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Roger A. Pedersen
Embryonic Stem Cells For Medicine. Scientific American, April, 1999, 280 (4), 68-73. |
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Jose B. Cibelli,
Robert P. Lanza, Michael West, and Carol Ezzell
The First Human Cloned Embryo. Scientific American, January, 2002, 286 (1), 44-51. |
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Eight: The Promise of Genomics for Medicine
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Stephen H. Friend
and Roland B. Stoughton
The Magic of Microarrays. Scientific American, February, 2002, 286 (2), 44-53. |
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Week Nine: Gene Therapy: Fixing Human Genetic Defects
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Theodore Friedman
Overcoming the Obstacles to Gene Therapy. Scientific American, June, 1997, 276 (6), 96-101. |
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Steve Mirsky and
John Rennie
What Cloning Means for Gene Therapy? Scientific American, June, 1997, 276 (6), 122-123. |
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Week Ten: Anthrax and Defending Against Bioweapons
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John T.
Young and R. John Collier
Attacking Anthrax. Scientific American, March, 2002, 286 (3), 48-59. |
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