Laboratory Manuals

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.

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.

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.

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.