This course will focus on new discoveries that affect, or promise to affect, mankind. Advances in science and medicine are providing hope for treatment of deadly and debilitating diseases; however, such advances impact society on many levels. The emerging medicines we will consider include gene therapy, stem cell research, anti-obesity and anti-aging drugs, mental illness treatments, genetic testing. An understanding of the biological basis of each emerging medicine will be focal. Science Majors.
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