Welcome to: LabWork

LabWork Study Guide & Lecture Notes

	How Big is a Bug ? - find out about bacteria and viruses. Pink Bugs, Purple Bugs - perform the Gram stain procedure and identify some bacteria from the LabWork rogues gallery. Bacterial Growth Curve - determine the rules which control bacterial growth: the growth rate constant and the mean generation (doubling) time.
Antibody-Antigen Interactions - find out the antibody concentration of a test antiserum and the number of antibody binding sites on an antigen molecule. Mr Campbell's Kidney - perform the most popular laboratory test in the world today. Rubella testing - advise patients about a dangerous virus.
	Viruses Don't 'Grow' - perform a classic experiment which demonstrates the principles of virus replication. Influenza Virus Haemagglutination - measure the amount of virus produced and determine the antigenic type of an unknown strain. Henrietta Lacks - who dunnit? Find out using PCR!