Course in a Box

I recently finished updating one of InnovATEBIO’s Courses-in-a-Box, Basic Laboratory Methods in a Regulated Environment . This course introduces students to fundamental laboratory methods that preprofessional biotechnologists must master. Over the years, my colleagues and I have tried to identify the most basic concepts and skills that our students require to be successful in various biotech workplaces. One of the first skills that we identified is the ability to prepare aqueous solutions. The box below is an interesting example of why the proper preparation of aqueous solutions should never be taken for granted. As summarized in... Read more

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by Hallie Golden

New on the job at a biotech company that's developing novel therapies for treatment of pancreatic diseases, you're given a vial of human embryonic stem cells. Your boss asks you to use them to generate primitive endoderm (a special type of tissue) from them and devise a method to determine how well your method worked (the efficiency of your directed differentiation).

Piece of cake, right? Well, not exactly.

On day seven you return to... Read more