Advanced Genetics: DNA Repair and Genome Editing (BIO-0241)

Spring 2025 · BIO 0241 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will teach the current state-of-the-art knowledge of DNA repair pathways that the cell uses to maintain a stable genome, including double-strand break repair, gap repair, repair and replication through DNA structures and chromatin, and consequences of inappropriate repair for cell health and cancer initiation. It will also cover current genome editing technologies including CRISPR-Cas9, adenovirus-mediated gene delivery for gene therapy, and RNAi. The course will have both a lecture component and a presentation/discussion component emphasizing reading original journal articles in these fields and techniques used to make discoveries.

Course codes: BIO-0241, BIO 0241, BIO0241, BIO-241, BIO 241, BIO241

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