MCD BIO 146

Metabolism and Disease

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Contribution of cellular metabolism to biology of human diseases including cancer and diabetes. Exploration of major alterations of cellular metabolism in disease; tools and technologies that enable detailed characterization of metabolic alterations; therapeutic targeting of metabolic vulnerabilities; and utility of altered cellular metabolism as diagnostic and predictive biomarkers.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Summer 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, 107.

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· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

MCD BIO 146

LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biologyanother path to it
LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecologyanother path to it

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.