GMP

According to Stephen Emerick, (Thermo) you cannot do anything without applying Good Manufacturing Practices. And while I am pretty sure he was talking about biomanufacturing, ensuring that a product is pure, safe, and effective sounds like a good plan for pretty much anything being produced. Stephen stated that GMP is built off of 'lots of mistakes', over hundreds of years--a perspective I had not really thought about until he said it. I listened to Stephen on the STL Biotechnology podcast series, hosted by the Center for Plant and Life Sciences at St Louis Community College-Florissant Valley. There... Read more

The things that grow on gloves.

Bioseparations ended in a whirlwind of information and lab work! So much so, that I felt like I was watching a Shrek movie (in a tornado). You know, with all the Disney characters in the same place all mixed together. By our final, which was a mock interview for a bioseparations lab tech position, I was sorted out on what the different types of chromatography use to equilibrate and elute proteins. Although, I did get busted still trying to intermingle PAGE and gel columns. Whoops!

Our last two projects in... Read more