Question

Hi! does anyone know of a free online course on synthetic biology?

Answer 1

There are a number of interesting things in the Biological Engineering section of OCW, such as:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biological-engineering/20-020-introduction-to-biological-engineering-design-spring-2009/

In many cases you won't see the term "synthetic biology" in the course name as MIT seems to include it withing "Biological Engineering", but lots of the things in that section will be relevant to the subject.

For really basic things like an overview of Recombinant DNA, the 7.012 course from 2004 has lots of great basic information. The four lectures on Recombinant DNA for example.

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