How Is It Tested? (Multi-Day)

Did you ever wonder what they do to get the lab results ordered by your doctor?  Maybe you are interested in gene therapy?  Have you wondered how vaccines are made and tested or how medicine gets developed?   Maybe you are curious what a biomedical scientist does?  

In the first week, I will present the method and principle behind some assays (lab tests) that might be ordered by your doctor.  The following week, we will discuss molecular biology techniques.  First, we will discuss molecular cloning, then look at some gene silencing methods.  Next, we will discuss how some medicines are made.  We will examine some topics of immunity and review how vaccines are made.  Then, in the last class we will discuss the steps to get a drug from discovery to market.  

Each class I will present  either a case study or thought questions to encourage discussion during class.  We will play an online trivia game at the end of class with what we learned. 

Please note this class is also offered as a weekly ongoing class or a FLEX class.

Week 1 
Day 1:  Complete Blood Count (CBC) Blood Test 
Day 2:  Metabolic Panel
Day 3:  Blood Types 
Day 4:  Clinical Microbiology
Week 2
Day 5:  Recombinant DNA Techniques (Cloning) 
Day 6:  Recombinant DNA Techniques (Gene Silencing) 
Day 7:  Vaccines
Day 8:  Drug Discovery