// Curriculum

18 modules · Core track

Each module includes track-aware summaries, evidence-graded claims, a quiz, flashcards, and curated primary literature. Switch tracks in the sidebar.

01

The Cell as a System

45 min

Why cell biology — not a parts list — is the operating system of medicine.

CoreClinicalResearchTier 1 · 2
02

Membrane Biophysics & Transport

70 min

Lipid bilayers, channels, pumps and the currencies of compartmentalisation.

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03

Protein Structure, Folding & Quality Control

75 min

From Anfinsen's dogma to chaperones, the UPS, and the unfolded-protein response.

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04

Organelles & the Secretory Pathway

70 min

ER, Golgi, lysosomes, and the COP/clathrin logistics network that keeps a cell alive.

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05

Cytoskeleton & Cell Motility

65 min

Actin, microtubules, intermediate filaments — and the motors that walk on them.

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06

Cell Junctions & the Extracellular Matrix

55 min

Tight, adherens, desmosomal, gap — and the matrix that holds tissues together.

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07

Bioenergetics & Mitochondrial Cell Biology

70 min

Membrane potential, ROS, mitophagy, and the inheritance of mitochondrial disease.

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08

Signal Transduction

75 min

GPCRs, RTKs, second messengers, and why most prescription drugs target signalling.

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09

Gene Expression & Chromatin

70 min

From nucleosomes to enhancers: how cells choose which genes to read.

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10

RNA Biology & Translation

65 min

Splicing, ncRNAs, mRNA capping and the ribosome — and the drugs that reach them.

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11

Cell Cycle & Checkpoints

60 min

CDKs, cyclins, restriction point — and the chemotherapy that exploits them.

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12

Cell Death Pathways

65 min

Apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis, ferroptosis — and why the difference matters clinically.

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13

DNA Damage & Repair

65 min

Lesions, sensors, repair pathways — and the synthetic-lethality oncology revolution.

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14

Cancer Cell Biology

75 min

Hallmarks, plasticity, microenvironment, metastasis — beyond mutation lists.

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15

Stem Cells, Development & Regeneration

65 min

Pluripotency, niches, organoids, and what cell therapy can — and cannot — yet do.

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16

Cellular Immunology Essentials

70 min

Innate sensors, T- and B-cell biology, immune synapses, and the cells we steer with checkpoint blockade.

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17

Methods: Microscopy, Omics & Genome Editing

75 min

What you actually need to read a modern cell-biology paper.

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18

Translational Frontier: Cell & Gene Therapy

70 min

What cell biology has put in clinic — and what it has promised but not yet delivered.

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