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What is Yellow fever? How has it impacted the United States? Why are so many parasites common only in developing countries? This course explores these questions and more while examining the basic biology of common human pathogens. These including pathogens that fall under the following categories: bacteria, viruses, prions, parasties, and helminthes.
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What questions are asked? What types of evidence are collected? How are those pieces of evidence analyzed and presented in court? During forensic-based investigations, the questions of who, what, why, when and how are continually asked by criminalists, DNA analysts, attorneys and other specialists in the field of forensic science.
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Are you interested in a career in medicine? This one week course will introduce you to Medical Education "Brown" style and help you decide if medicine might be the right career for you. We will look at characteristics of a "good physician," shadow members of the Brown Medical faculty, tour the Brown Medical School (anatomy lab and the hospitals), do a quick study of histology, interview a "standardized patient" and discuss an ethics case. Our goal is to give students who have considered a medical career a brief glimpse of what it might take to become a physician.
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What is Public Health? Public health is the latest buzz word in America, and in this one week course, students will develop an overall understanding of public health. From universal health care to mandated health insurance coverage, students will examine the dichotomy between individual health and public health. Newspaper articles and sound bytes will challenge students to read and think critically to evaluate media messages about health. Through discussions, readings, and in-class exercises, students will explore epidemiologic methods to gain a better understanding of how researchers identify disease and develop solutions to public health problems. Case studies and specific examples will provide the basis for students to analyze research and critique health articles and studies. Students will be introduced to the work and decision-making process of government and non-governmental organizations in the field of public health, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This course will also provide an excellent opportunity for students to learn about future career paths in public health.
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What do babies think? What types of knowledge are we born with and what do we need to learn? How does our experience of the world change across development? How is it possible to answer these questions? These are some of the overarching issues that will be addressed in this course.
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This lecture/laboratory course will introduce students to basic stem cell theory and laboratory techniques. Topics covered in lecture will include embryonic and adult stem cells, cloning techniques (both reproductive and therapeutic), as well as an overview of model systems used to study stem cells in plants and invertebrates. The stem cell's place in the future of regenerative medicine will be addressed. The concluding lecture will examine the possible role of the stem cell in the evolution of multicellularity, and "Stem Cells: Ethical Concerns".
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How does an Olympic sprinter run 200 meters in 20 seconds, an elite cyclist ride at 30 miles per hour for over 4 hours or a marathoner run 26 miles in just over 2 hours? The science of exercise physiology examines these questions and others related to how the body's organ systems allow for humans to attain high levels of performance. From the heart, which must pump as much as 20 liters of blood per minute, enough to fill an average bath tub in a half hour, to the lungs, which must be ventilated with 4 times this volume of air, the organ systems of the body integrate their function to mobilize and deliver enough fuel and oxygen to maintain exercising muscle. Just as a real fire consumes oxygen and fuel, exercising muscles produce large amounts of heat, carbon dioxide and other waste products, which need to be efficiently disposed of to maintain optimal performance. Complete integration of the body's organ system is necessary for these processes to occur. This course in exercise physiology will provide a glimpse into how the human body functions during exercise. Through a combination of lectures and laboratory exercises, we intend to provide an integrative approach to understanding these processes from the tissue level up to the whole body. We will examine the basic concept of chemical energy and how it is maintained in exercising muscle through the coordination of the cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels), respiratory (lungs and diaphragm), nervous (brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves) and endocrine systems (glands and hormones). The first half of each meeting period will be a lecture followed by an activity that reinforces the material just presented during which students will be exposed to some anatomy and histology as well as some of the techniques used to examine exercise performance, including spirometry and electrocardiography"
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While some would say "substance over form," in this course the substance IS form: that of the vertebrate body. We will focus on the four tissues that represent the body's building blocks. These will be examined from the perspective of the cell, tissue and organ levels.
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Doctors work to treat diseases but scientists work to cure them. Have you ever wondered about the work that goes on behind the scenes in Medicine? Do you want to find out what it is like to work in a laboratory and be a real "lab rat"? This laboratory intensive course is designed to expose students to basic laboratory research, current topics and techniques in molecular biology, biotechnology and medicine.
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The primary focus of this course will be on key diseases that are caused by protein misfolding, including symptoms, cellular physiology, and current methods of treatment for these diseases. Specifically, we will be discussing both infections and noninfectious protein misfolding diseases. Infectious diseases comprise those caused by prion proteins such as Mad Cow, Kuru, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Non-infectious diseases include other neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s. Therefore, this course will not only give students a general understanding of the biology behind protein maturation, but also emphasize its importance by examining some of the devastating consequences faced when proteins fail to properly mature.
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