Paths · Advanced students, graduate students, researchers in a neighboring field

Reaching the edge of research

The three courses built around current research. Most lessons end near what is still unknown, with the experiments and papers behind it.

  1. Optional · 26 lessons

    Cell Biology

    The cell, so the signaling makes sense.

    Start: Cells Control Their Size: A Measured Eukaryotic Cell →

  2. 44 lessons

    Cell Signaling

    How cells send, read and act on signals, up to current research.

    Start: Signals and How Far They Travel →

  3. 51 lessons

    Developmental Neuroscience

    How a nervous system builds itself, and what is still open.

    Start: The Wiring Problem: How a Brain Gets Built →

  4. 30 lessons

    Sensory Systems

    Touch, sight, sound, smell and taste, with the open questions.

    Start: Five Ways to Turn a Stimulus into a Current →

The methods library: how scientists find things out

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