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Laboratory Manuals

Your student lab manual for each course, 53 labs across the pathway. Every lab is self-contained: read the science, do the pre-lab, run the procedure, record your data, and write your conclusion. Bring the manual to the bench and compare your work to the figures.

The science behind each lab, taught in plain language before you start.
One standardized lab report for every lab and simulation: reading checks, a prediction, your data, an error analysis, and a claim you can defend.
Realistic labeled figures: the bench setup, the expected result, and the common mistakes to compare against.
A safety section tied to the real hazards of that lab, with the PPE and what to do.
PBS
Principles of Biomedical Science
13 labs

Forensics into genetics and clinical care: reading evidence, cells, inheritance, and a patient's baseline.

Trace evidence (hair and fingerprints), presumptive blood testing, DNA evidence, DNA fingerprinting, histology, sheep heart anatomy, vital signs, drug coatings, karyotyping, pedigree analysis, bacteria isolation and Gram staining, toxicology dose-response, and bioremediation.

PBS Student Manual (PDF)
MI
Medical Interventions
13 labs

How we fight disease: diagnosis, resistance, cancer, gene therapy, and biotech tools.

ELISA, disk diffusion, bacterial conjugation, vaccination, genetics of taste, gene therapy, cancer cell morphology, DNA microarray, sunscreen and UV, biofeedback, GFP transformation, laparoscopic skills, and suturing.

MI Student Manual (PDF)
HBS
Human Body Systems
16 labs

The working body, from bone and muscle to brain, heart, lungs, and kidney, with hands-on anatomy.

Muscle and ATP, muscle fatigue with sensors, joints and range of motion, sheep brain dissection, reflex and reaction time, C. elegans behavior, EKG and the cardiac cycle, heart and lung dissection, spirometry, plaque assay, cow eye dissection, kidney dissection, kidney dialysis, DNA diagnosis, urinalysis, and digestion enzymes.

HBS Student Manual (PDF)
BI
Biomedical Innovation
11 labs

Capstone problems where you design, test, and investigate.

Exercise physiology, medical device prototyping, bioprinting design, water quality testing, plant-growth toxicology, bacterial DNA and PCR, outbreak epidemiology, recombinant DNA cloning, forensic autopsy, bioethics, and global health.

BI Student Manual (PDF)

These are the student editions, hosted on Google Drive so they open fast and stay current. Teacher editions (with prep, SDS, and answer keys) and the equipment ordering blueprint are kept separately. Go Hornets.