Feedback Loops

MIT RES.TLL-004 Concept Vignettes
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Instructor: Leah Okumura

This video discusses negative and positive feedback loops, how they tie into the bodyäó»s mechanism of internal regulation, and what happens when these mechanisms fail.

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