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This 90 minutes lecture to be delivered via telelink addresses a class of MIT undergraduates unrolled in Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping Course. The students have been introduced to the basic optimization concepts of design variables, design space, objective function

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The hematopoietic system of mammals is a convenient model to use to study development and differentiation. The bone marrow transplantation experiment discussed in lecture indicates that stem cells are more than a figment of some biologist,'s fertile

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