Review Questions for Final Exam [posted November 30th]
As of 1:40 pm December 3rd, the list is now complete. No more questions will be added.
A typo was fixed in question 5, and a link was added to question 27, on Tuesday afternoon at 3:50 pm. A comment was also added at the beginning of the question list.
Minimization of Energy [posted November 29th; illustrations added December 1st]
Spontaneous Rearrangement [posted November 16th]
Ossification [posted November 7th]
Some micrographs and diagrams pertinent to collagen and cartilage [posted November 3rd]
Cartilage [posted November 1st; some more text added November 6th]
Electro-osmosis, from last year's course [posted November 2nd]
Notes on October 26th discussion [posted October 26th]
The Dreaded Erroneous Research Paper Assignment [posted October 10th]
Web links on the discovery of Helicobacter pylori as the cause of gastric ulcers [posted October 9th; revised October 12th]
Next Assignment: Cell Sorting [posted October 7th; updated October 31st]
"Recognizing Self" [posted October 5th]
Biology 441 page on Cancer [posted October 3rd]
Do Cancer Cells Grow Faster? [posted September 30th, slightly modified October 1st 9 pm]
Development of the Immune System, from Biology 441 site
Files
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Strategies to Find Cures for Cancer [posted September 18th]
Specificity of Cancer Chemotherapy [posted September 22nd]
Special Vulnerabilities of Cancer Cells
Key Facts About Antibodies and Immunity [posted September 21st]
Autoimmune Diseases in One Easy Lesson
Pre-Crick-Watson Knowledge About Genes
Philosophy of Science [some new text was added to this 8/26/11]
Previous Assignments
First graded assignment: Library and web search for cancer treatments
Reading assignment for Friday, September 2:
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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY | LETTER (advance online publication)
by David F. Kashatus et al.
web link
Reading assignment for Friday, September 9:
López-Lázaro, M. (2008). The Warburg effect: why and how do cancer cells activate glycolysis in the presence of oxygen? Anticancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 8(3), 305-312.
LINK (requires UNC login)
Reading assignment for Wednesday, September 7:
Munevar, Wang and Dembo (2001). Traction force microscopy of migrating normal and H-ras transformed 3T3 fibroblasts. Biophysical Journal 80, 1744-1757.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1301364/?tool=pubmed
Graded assignment: Foundations of Misunderstanding in Immunology [posted September 25th]
This assignment should be done by pairs of students working together.
The assignment was due on Monday, October 3rd.