Diabetes - A Global Challenge. Course Discussion Thread.

FergusCrawford said:

randburg
On my watchlist:
The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health Univ -Copenhagen
Present:
Genomic & precision medicine - UCSF

Upcoming:
Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us -Univ Pennsylvania
Health for all through primary health care - Johns Hopkins Univ
Intro to Global Health Univ Copenhagen
Useful Genetics Parts 1&2 - Univ British Columbia
Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialzation - UCSD

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I'm doing epigenetics at the moment but might give up that one as it is very biochemistry based and behavioural genetics which will look at some controversial areas. There are already some lively discussions in the forums

I'm looking at doing this one as on every genetics course I do, there are other students who say it was the best MOOC that they have done
https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-7-00x-introduction-biology-secret-1768#.U3HsL5pBvIU

I've done useful genetics, it's an excellent course. If you don't have a good background then I think that most people, including me found that they took quite a bit more time than was suggested. The quizzes are let's say challenging so it's important to do the practice quizzes. Dr Redfield and the TAs are very active in the forums which helps a lot.

One of my favourite courses though was Archaeologies Dirty Little Secrets, very interesting with assignments that were often great fun to do.

Update, they've sorted out the final quiz marking but I found that I had to review my quiz to get the updated mark.
Still not sure that the marks on this course mean much, I certainly don't understand some of the lectures yet still managed to get full marks on the quiz.
As a set of lectures on modern diabetes research it was excellent.
I would have liked to see more about T1 especially in the genetics lectures but realise that's not the 'global challenge' I found the last lecture on 'growing islets' from stem cells fascinating; Novo on the way to a cure? (I almost put big pharma! )