MIT OpenCourseWare's introductory biology course (Fall 2004) covering molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry, with video lectures available. Commenters note it explains how biochemistry and genetics came together into modern biotechnology.

Commenters call it a great introduction to how biochemistry and genetics joined to form modern biotech, and praise Eric Lander as a great lecturer.

What commenters said (3)

1. Recommendsbigmit372018in “No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research”

   Sure I haven’t taken too many yet but I took general chemistry and organic chemistry on youtube.

   For Moocs:

   I recommended intro to bio by mit (great intro to how biochemistry and genetics joined together to become the field of biotech as we know it today) as well as medicinal chemistry in edX.

   https://www.edx.org/course/medicinal-chemistry-the-molecular...

   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introduction-to-bi...

   There are more and more biology related MOOCs popping up frequently.

2. Recommendsmian2zi32010in “Ask HN: Intro to molecular biology for a math/compsci background?”

   I have a similar background, and I thought this book was good:

   http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-made-simple-fun/dp/1...

   You might also check out the MIT OCW Intro Biology videos:

   http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introduction-to-bio...

   Eric Lander gives the Molecular Biology lectures. He is a great lecturer.

3. Mentionsbigmit372018in “No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research”

   Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the confusion : I should have stated biochemistry.

   I went through this course (below)which was really interesting. However the course focused more on synthetic Chemistry and only briefly touched upon how active compounds are found and extracted from natural compounds.

   I also read about biotechnology and went through some lecturers on YouTube and MIT intro to bio course. The impression I get is biotech (recombinant DNA) is cheaper than drug discovery? Drug discovery seems to have a lot more factors you need to be concerned about (clearance rate, bioavaibilty, binding to too many proteins )that make seem more expensive

   https://www.edx.org/course/medicinal-chemistry-the-molecular...

   Would you mind recommending couple of books so I could gain some more knowledge on the subject.

   I just purchase “organic chemistry or drug design and drug action”

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