GER 383 Emerging Medicines and Technologies
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.