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Newton's First Law of Motion: Balanced and unbalanced forces
Travel back in time to 1687 and help Newton remember his first law of motion and what it means for a body to stay at rest or in uniform motion. Learn when two forces are balanced or unbalanced and experiment with his first law of motion in space.
Evolution: Generations of an allele
Dive into the evolution of whales! Follow the path of a gene from a rare mutation to being stuck in a population through natural disasters and competition.
Newton's Law of Gravitation: Mathematical expression of gravitational force
Join Newton in his garden and take a spaceship ride to explore gravity in space. Learn the meaning of each term of the equation of the universal law of gravitation and use it to predict the gravitational attraction between two bodies.
Newton's Second Law of Motion: Speed and Acceleration
Travel through time and space to help Newton remember his second law. Use this physically realistic simulation to experiment with forces and masses, and observe their effects on acceleration and velocity.
Evolution: Identifying a deep sea creature
Dive into the evolution of whales: from a sequence of nucleotides to a 30-meter long blue whale.
Evolution: Journey of the canids
Follow the million-year evolutionary journey of a canid colony as you create random mutations in their DNA.
Evolution: Founding theories and principles
Follow the million-year evolutionary journey of a canid colony as you create random mutations in their DNA and critique biological evidence to build a taxonomic tree that unites all life on Earth.
Gene Expression Unit: Use sequencing to unveil a gene linked to obesity
Discover Next Generation Sequencing by analyzing the mRNA from pig tissues and identify a new gene linked to obesity. Confirm your results using qPCR to analyze the expression levels of your gene!
Gram Stain: How stains and counterstains work
Have you ever wondered how the bacteria cell actually gets stained during Gram staining procedure? Discover how the cell retains a certain color during the experiment and to differentiate it under the microscope!
Electrolysis
Experiment with electrolytic cells in a lab on Mars! Assemble different electrolytic cells so you can make hydrogen fuel for your Mars rover, and give mini Dr. One a new gold coating.
Western Blot Transfer: Prepare for protein detection
Join Dr. One and two colleagues on their mission to cure cancer. They are using Western blot to compare the level of p53 protein in cancerous and healthy control cells. Can you help Dr. One with the tricky membrane transfer step?
Introduction to Echocardiography: Use different projections to diagnose patients
Practice obtaining different ultrasound views of the heart anatomy and use different Doppler ultrasound imaging techniques on a giant virtual heart. Apply your new skills to diagnose a patient.
Urinalysis: Analyze urine to suggest a diagnosis
Perform the three stages of urinalysis on a variety of urine samples collected from patients. Apply your knowledge of urine's macroscopic, chemical, and microscopic properties to interpret the urinalysis results and suggest a plausible diagnosis.
Sensory transduction: Learn why you feel pain when you get hit by a rock
Learn the basic mechanisms of sensory transduction by performing in vitro and in vivo experiments and determine which anesthetic drug will allow your friend to keep climbing a mountain without having the muscles affected.
Protein Synthesis
Explore the structure of proteins and learn about the synthesis process inside the cells. Examine the protein sequence to understand the differences of protein synthesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Periodic Table of Elements: Get the table organized in time!
Help Dr. One get the periodic table ready in time! By directly observing the elements’ characteristics, testing their flame color, and investigating trends in atomic properties, your mission is to figure out where a number of fallen out elements belong.
Pasteurization and Sterilization
Help an organic farmer to increase the shelf life of his peach juice. Will you be able to eliminate spoilage of the peach juice?
Parkinson's Disease
Use liquid chromatography to purify a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease to learn more about its causes and evaluate the efficacy of a promising molecule for its treatment using confocal microscopy.
Newton's Laws of Motion: Understand active and passive safety in motorsports
Join a team of motorsport engineers and learn the basics of Newton’s laws of motion. Understand the basic principles of passive and active safety while driving a high-class race car.
Gel Electrophoresis: Visualize and separate nucleic acids
Solve a crime by using DNA fingerprinting to identify a thief. Use nucleic acid gel electrophoresis to separate and visualize DNA molecules and watch an animation to understand what happens inside the gel tank.
Mass Spectrometry: The race of the fastest fragment
Dive into a virtual laboratory to discover the secrets of mass spectrometry. From the structure of the instrument to the interpretation of different spectra, no fragmentation pattern will remain a mystery to you!
Ecological niches: Choose the right Kuppelfang to bring to Earth!
Investigate why the Kuppelfangs died when transplanted to the new Astakos IV biodome on Earth. Quantify their realized and fundamental niche, and explore how acclimation affects the boundaries of a niche.
Litmus Test for Carboxylic Acids
Perform the litmus test on six organic compounds found in nature. Interpret the results to identify which organic compounds are carboxylic acids.
Evolution: Are you related to a sea monster?
Learn the basic mechanisms of evolution in order to simulate how a population evolved over hundreds of years, and learn how random mutations are the basis of natural selection.
Fermentation: Optimize bio-ethanol production
Learn how to optimize alcohol production in a fermentor. Will you be able to create the ideal conditions for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce bioethanol?
Cell Structure: Cell theory and internal organelles
Explore different cell samples under the microscope to identify the differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Build the structure of an animal cell and choose the internal organelles of four specialized cells.
ELISA
Help a scientist detect and quantify proteins by using one of the most popular techniques in molecular biology.
Diabetes
Learn the basics of Type II diabetes.
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Learn the techniques and application of Polymerase Chain Reaction and Gel Electrophoresis. Explore a real-world application, such as analyzing unique genetic fingerprints to solve a murder case.
Photosynthesis: Algae pigment analysis
Help Roxy figure out if a mysterious dark algae is able to do photosynthesis using green light and measure this process with the Hill reaction.
CRISPR-Cas applied to TGF-beta induced EMT
Learn how to detect the hallmarks of EMT using immunofluorescence and knock out the correct gene to revert the process using CRISPR
Carbohydrates: The sugars that feed us
The Carbohydrates Lab explores how carbohydrates are broken down by the digestive system and taken up into the bloodstream.
Antibodies: Why are some blood types incompatible?
Learn about the concepts of antibodies and antigens, as well as the ABO and Rhesus blood grouping systems and their importance in blood transfusions. Then, you will help a young couple determine a potential risk for Rhesus disease in their unborn child.
Exploring a Distillation Apparatus
Get ready to dive deep into the process of distillation, by inspecting a simple benchtop distillation system and exploring all its parts on your own. Will you be able to relate the part of the distillation apparatus to their functions?
Elimination Reaction: Use cyclohexanol to create polymers
Join Kim in the Polymer Research Lab to solve the puzzle of unexpected side product formation in their optimized cyclohexanol elimination reaction. Use and expand your organic chemistry knowledge to do this and get the polymer production back on track.
Recrystallization: Dissolve your solid and precipitate your crystals
Slip on your thermal resistant gloves, and let's get started! In this simulation, you’ll discover how to purify a solid by using the recrystallization technique.
Behavioral Thermoregulation: Help keep a gecksi alive!
Life is hard when you need to constantly work to maintain your body temperature and keep your energy levels in check. Think like a gecksi, make wise choices and try to keep the gecksi alive in three challenging environments!
Conductivity Testing: Investigating conductivity and its practical applications
Embark on this electrifying adventure of conductivity testing. Grasp the difference between electrolytes and nonelectrolytes, the connection between concentration and conductivity, and appreciate the significance of ions in biological systems.
Advanced Acids and Bases
Join us in in the exploration of acids and bases and learn all the advanced terms used in chemistry.
Competition: Learn to identify and quantify competition between species
Help the residents in Astakos IV to increase the yield of their crops by reducing the competition between different species.
Introduction to the Central Nervous System: Explore your body’s command center!
Enter Labster's Anatomy and Physiology lab to explore the structures and functions of the brain and spinal cord; the two elements of the central nervous system. Can you help our lab assistant struggling with aphasia understand which area of their brain might be impaired?
Cancer Pharmacology: Provide recommendations in a multi-million dollar project
Review the usefulness of a multi-million dollar operation to identify potential drugs for cancer chemotherapy, and provide your recommendations to the Project Leader.
Drivers of Plate Tectonics: Replicate Earth’s convection currents
Tectonic plates travel two to three centimeters each year, but why? And how? Create convection currents in different materials to understand what causes plate movement and why it is so slow.
Coulomb's Law: Electrifying electrostatics
Experiment with tensions and charges to uncover the secrets of Coulomb's law, the cornerstone of electrostatics.
Bacterial Cell Structures: An introduction to the bacterial cell
Visit a research station in Antarctica and help the researcher Nicolas explore bacteria in melting water. Uncover the features that are necessary for bacterial survival and compare these to other bacteria living elsewhere.
Blood Components: Dive into the microscopic world of blood cells!
Learn how to identify the key, physical characteristics of the blood components and understand their functions. Apply your knowledge to analyze patient’s blood samples and suggest possible diagnoses.
Embryology: Discover the genetics of limb development
Dissect chicken and mouse embryos to visualize and analyze embryonic development. Compare genetic results from the model organisms with the genetic laboratory results from a human case study to determine the cause and effect of Liebenberg Syndrome.
Cell Membrane and Transport: Modifying the cell membrane
Discover the structure and function of cell membranes using the fluid mosaic model. Apply your learning to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.
Bacterial Growth Curves: Experiment with bacterial growth
Learn about the mind-boggling speed of exponential growth and test how different growth conditions affect bacterial growth.
Body Planes and Sections: Locate a chimpanzee’s injuries
In this virtual lab you will help release an injured chimpanzee back into the wild by using your newfound knowledge of body planes and sections.
Ceric Ammonium Nitrate Test: Which compound contains alcohol?
Join Dr. Ali to discover how to use the ceric ammonium nitrate test to detect alcohols. Deduce which of our two samples contains alcohol groups by performing the test yourself!
Cardio-respiratory Physiology: How can seals dive so deep for so long?
Monitor three dives of a Weddell seal in Antarctica and discover how long it can dive with the oxygen available in its stores.
The Bromine Test For Unsaturated Bonds: An essential in the chemist’s toolbelt!
Assist Chemical engineers in crisis as you help them use the correct chemicals in their reactions. Discover the reactions of bromine and unsaturated bonds and put this to use by conducting the bromine test.
Light Microscopy
Enter the virtual microscope room to see inside a tissue sample. Learn how a light microscope can magnify an image and answer biological questions.
Plate Tectonics: Boundaries and crustal features
Explore real-world, iconic landforms created by different boundaries between tectonic plates. Determine if a plate boundary is convergent, divergent, or transform, and learn how continental and oceanic crust can influence the type of landform created.
Single Replacement Reactions: Investigate seawater corrosion of aluminum
Discover single replacement reactions by witnessing the corrosive battle between seawater and aluminum ship propellers.
FACS
In the Fluorescence-automated Cell Sorting (FACS) Simulation, you will learn the basics of flow cytometry and find out how to use a flow cytometer with fluorescence detection.
Biodiversity: Assess and compare biodiversity on an exoplanet
Travel to the exoplanet Astakos IV and use ecological methods to assess and compare biodiversity over time and between different sites.
Action Potential Lab: Experiment with a squid neuron
Dissect a squid and use its giant neuron to witness the propagation of information in the shape of an action potential created by an electric current. Use this information to identify a neurotoxin affecting a hospitalized patient.
Atomic Structure: Assess the possibility of life on other planets
Learn about the atomic structure of the elements and investigate the properties of element samples from an exoplanet to assess whether life on it is a possibility. Find out what differentiates an atom from an ion and define the isotopes of an element.
Reaction Kinetics: The essentials
Join Dr. One at our extraterrestrial lab facility, where we’re struggling to get enough propulsion for our transporter. We need you to figure out the kinetics and optimize the chemical reaction of the fuel we’re using, so we can continue with our experiments.
Infrared Spectroscopy
Dive into a virtual laboratory to discover the secrets of infrared spectroscopy. From the introduction of different vibrational modes to the interpretation of real-life spectra, mastering this technique will be child’s play.
Bioinformatics: An introduction
Embark on a mission to identify the metabolic pathway that produces an antimalarial compound in a rare plant. Can you begin the process of creating a novel antimalarial drug?
Identification of Unknown Bacteria: Help save baby Kuppelfangs from an epidemic!
Visit the exoplanet Astakos IV, where the Kuppelfang population is suffering from a bacterial infection. Use staining, differential media and biochemical tests to identify the bacteria so that the Kuppelfangs can be treated before they go extinct.
Ionic and Covalent Bonds
Join your friend on a quest to analyze two mysterious substances he got from an alchemist to cure his migraine and learn how atoms connect.
Thermal Homeostasis: Apply thermoregulation to climate change
See how deer physiologically respond to climate change. Use a metabolic chamber and Douglas bag to measure the oxygen content, humidity and volume of a deer’s exhaled breath at different temperatures.
Atomic Structure (Principles): Atoms and isotopes
Learn about the atomic structure of the elements and investigate the properties of element samples from an exoplanet to assess whether life on it is a possibility. Find out what differentiates ions and isotopes of an element.
Cell Membrane and Transport: Learn how transporters keep cells healthy
Discover the structure and function of cell membranes by launching cargo molecules at a virtual cell. Apply your learning back in the lab to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.
Animal Genetics
Learn about the Mendelian inheritance of double muscling in cattle. Find the responsible gene using linkage analysis and learn how mutation in this gene alters gene expression resulting in double muscled cattle.
Introduction to Pulmonary Ventilation: Process of respiration and physiology of the respiratory system
Join us in Labster's Anatomy and Physiology Lab to explore the physiology of pulmonary ventilation and learn about the structure, functions, and impairments of the respiratory system.
Azo Dye Test: Identify primary aromatic amines
Our lab recently relocated and some chemical labels were damaged during the move. Help us to reorganize our box of amines by performing the azo dye test. Use your results to determine if the unknown amine is a primary aromatic amine or not.
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