Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Homework Questions from Professor Jacobson: Nature’s machinery for copying DNA is called polymerase. What is the error rate of polymerase? How does this compare to the length of the human genome. How does biology deal with that discrepancy? How many different ways are there to code (DNA nucleotide code) for an average human protein? In practice what are some of the reasons that all of these different codes don’t work to code for the protein of interest?
My homework Part 3:DNA Desing Challenge 3.1 Choose your protein Protein chosen: Human Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Why I chose it: Because it is a clinically relevant inflammatory cytokine involved in immune signaling and cancer-associated systemic inflammation. As a biomedical engineering student, I am particularly interested in measurable biological signals that can be incorporated into predictive models and biomarker-based classification systems. IL-6 represents a translational protein that bridges molecular biology with clinical decision support and quantitative biomedical analysis.