Bioprocessing: Join Us On The Edge
This video is designed to educate beginning biotechnology students about specific career opportunities in industrial biotechnology by helping…
BioWork 2050: Safety Survey
Regular safety surveys are an important part of a company’s occupational health and safety program. It’s a tool for proactively identifying hazards…
BioWork 3020: Measuring Small Distances with a Caliper
Dimensional checks are quality control procedures in which a sample of items are measured against the manufacturer's specifications. Items that we…
BioWork 3050: Measuring Weight
See how to determine the maximum range of a top loading balance, and learn how to calibrate it using a set of standard weights. Then we'll …
BioWork 3100: Working With Proteins
Denaturation is a process that causes a protein to unfold and lose its shape, and it usually happens as a result of external stress. It’s an…
BioWork 3110: Steam Collapse
In biomanufacturing, we use moist heat - saturated, pressurized steam - to kill microbes. But steam’s unique physical properties present some…
BioWork 4060: Making Media
Learn how to make a simple type of media called LB+ which is commonly used for growing E. coli. In this demonstration, we'll also test the impact of…
BioWork 4075: Making and Observing the Characteristics of a Buffer
Buffers are solutions that are able to resist changes in pH. In this experiment, we make a buffer of equal parts acetic acid and sodium acetate, and…
BioWork 5060: Plate & Frame Filtration
Plate and frame filtration is widely used in food, beverage, pharma and chemical manufacturing. Let’s examine mixing, solubility, and tangential flow…
BioWork 5070: Column Chromatography Separation (Grape Soda)
Chromatography is a common technique to purify a pharma product. It’s how we break down a complex mixture into a single material. In this…