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Laboratory
Manual

Biotechnology Laboratory Methods

in the Regulated Work Place

Lisa Seidman

Madison Area Technical College

Funded in part by NSF ATE grants
DUE 9752027 and 0101093

Background for this laboratory manual is provided in “Basic Laboratory Methods for Biotechnology” by Lisa A. Seidman, Madison Area Technical College, and Cynthia J. Moore, Illinois State University, ISBN: 0-13-795535-9, Publisher: Prentice Hall, Copyright: 2000, Format: Spiral Bound; 751 pp.

The printable version of this document.

 


Table Of Contents

Introductory Notes

Overview

Laboratory Safety

General Laboratory Practices

Working in Groups

SOP Outline

 


Unit I: Introduction to Laboratory Documentation

Unit I: Introduction to Laboratory Documentation

Laboratory Exercise 1
Keeping a Laboratory Notebook

Classroom Activity 1
Writing and Following an SOP

 


Unit II:  Metrology

Unit II:  Metrology

Classroom Activity 2
Constructing a Simple Balance

Laboratory Exercise 2
Measuring Weights; Performance Verification of a Balance


Laboratory Exercise 3
Measuring Volumes; Performance Verification of a Micropipettor


Laboratory Exercise 4
The Creation of Aerosols when Working with Liquids


Laboratory Exercise 5
Measuring pH Accurately

 


Unit III: Making Solutions

Unit III: Making Solutions

Laboratory Exercise 6
Using Conductivity for Quality Control of Solutions


Laboratory Exercise 7
Working with Tris Buffer


Laboratory Exercise 8
More Practice Making Solutions


Laboratory Exercise 9
Putting it all Together - Making a Product According to the Requirements of GMP

 


Unit IV: Spectrophotometry

Unit IV: Spectrophotometry

Laboratory Exercise 10
Absorption Spectra of Colored Dyes


Laboratory Exercise 11
Concentration, Absorbance, and Transmittance


Laboratory Exercise 12
Standard Curves with Food Coloring


Laboratory Exercise 13
A Quantitative Protein Assay


Laboratory Exercise 14
The Diphenylamine Colorimetric Assay and Method Validation


Simulation
Contract Testing Laboratory and Biopharmaceutical Company

Laboratory Exercise 15
UV Spectrophotometry of DNA, RNA, and Proteins


Laboratory Exercise 16
Using Absorbance Spectra for Quality Control

 

 

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Lisa Seidman
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