Tengo el gusto de anunciarles que mi curso de virologia esta ahora disponible en Español. Este trabajo se realizó bajo la dirección de la Dra. Susana López, virologa del Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular del Instituto de Biotecnología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma...

Soon after the new influenza H1N1 strain emerged in April 2009, I began a series of blog posts on basic aspects of influenza virus replication and pathogenesis. The goal of this series is to provide information that will allow everyone to better understand the events surrounding emergence and spread...

A new class is starting at virology blog: Virology 101. I began this blog in 2004, to give back what I’ve learned from studying viruses for 30+ years. I’ve written many posts on basic virology, but they tend to disappear with time. To remedy this problem, I’ve collected all these posts with links...

This Columbia University virology course is offered each year in the spring semester. The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious...

Methods used for the study of viruses Viral growth * Multiplicity of Infection * Influenza virus growth in eggs Viral detection * Influenza hemagglutination inhibition assay * Influenza microneutralization assay * Detecting viruses: the plaque assay * Measurement of viruses by end-point dilution...

The University of Tasmania's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia, is an 9-week online course that builds upon the latest in international research on dementia. It's free and anyone can register. In response to the recent dramatic rise in the global incidence of dementia...

Happiness at work matters. For example, the happiest 20% of people earn 32% more than the least happy 20%! In this course, you’ll learn about things you can do to enhance both your own happiness and the happiness of your coworkers. How is career success related to happiness and vice versa? Most of us...

This course provides a foundation in the following four areas: evolutionary and population genetics; comparative genomics; structural genomics and proteomics; and functional genomics and regulation.

Learn from Tufts University about the provision of safe water, sanitation and sustainability to improve global public health. The Biology of Water and Health from Tufts University is a water sustainability course (PH241x) that examines increasingly critical water-related issues through a distinctly global...

Ce cours décrit les mécanismes fondamentaux du système immunitaire pour mieux comprendre les bases immunologiques dela vaccination, de la transplantation, de l’immunothérapie, de l'allergie et des maladies auto-immunes. Le but de cet enseignement est de faire comprendre comment fonctionne notre syst...

Discover how new drugs are developed, tested, approved and marketed. Medicine has eradicated or eased the symptoms of many diseases. This course reveals how new drugs go from research innovation to a medicine that can be prescribed to patients. You’ll learn the process, challenges and issues in developing...

Learn about malnutrition and micronutrients and how they impact human health. Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn more about nutrition and how our diet  profoundly impacts our current and future health. The course will...

This course provides an overview of the Design Thinking process and tools used for business innovation. Design Thinking is a popular new idea in the business world – organizations as diverse as entrepreneurial start-ups, big established corporations, and government and social service organizations...

This course provides a foundation for understanding the relationship between molecular biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and medicine. It develops explicit connections between basic research, medical understanding, and the perspective of patients. Principles of human...

This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. Participants will learn the fundamentals...

The principles and practice of tissue engineering (and regenerative medicine) are taught by faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The principles underlying strategies for employing selected cells, biomaterial scaffolds, soluble...

Toma el control de tus emociones y aprende a disfrutar tu trabajo con este curso en línea. En este curso aprenderás cómo controlar el estrés, y obtendrás habilidades profesionales y personales para tu éxito profesional. En la actualidad las demandas del mundo laboral están saturando a las personas con...

This MOOC brings faculty development to the teaching practice by providing teaching strategies that can be immediately applied in health professions teaching contexts and practices. This education and teacher training course provides teaching strategies for health professional teachers that can be applied...

Explore the impact of climate change on public health, and discover ways to influence behaviours and policies at all levels.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs. Despite medical and technological advances, half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services, and over 8.9 million preventable deaths occur every year. There is an acute...