Virtual Lab Simulation Catalog

Biology

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.

Biology

Evolution: Identifying a deep sea creature

Dive into the evolution of whales: from a sequence of nucleotides to a 30-meter long blue whale.

Biology

Evolution: Journey of the canids

Follow the million-year evolutionary journey of a canid colony as you create random mutations in their DNA.

Biology

Evolution: Taxonomic tree of life

Build a taxonomic tree that unites all life on Earth by exploring the differences between organisms.

Medicine

Exercise Physiology

In this sports science lab, you will find out how only three times ten minutes of supramaximal sprint interval training per week can increase your exercise capacity and fitness level.

Biology

Experimental Design

Work as a pharmaceutical detective to identify the link between a new drug and a recent epidemic. Use the scientific method to design an experiment and perform a fluorescent cell assay to test your hypothesis.

Biology

Exploring Human Reproductive Cells

The Labster fertility center needs your help! Some of the samples of sperm and ova have been mixed up in unlabeled tubes and the team needs your sort this out. While exploring the samples, learn about the process of meiosis and mitosis.

Chemistry

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?

Biology

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.

Chemistry

Fehling's Test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?

Learn how to perform Fehling’s test for reducing sugars on a variety of food samples. Predict which samples contain reducing sugars and find out how your predictions compare to your results!

Biology

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?

Physics

Fission: Discover a powerful energy source

You're on a mission to learn about fission and how we harness it as a sustainable energy source. Journey into the heart of a reactor and answer the lab's security questions to activate it.

Chemistry

Flow Injection Analysis

Let’s awaken your curiosity for the chemistry of caffeine. Learn how Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) helps scientists measure the concentration of caffeine in your drinks.

Biology

Fluorescence Microscopy

Enter the virtual microscope room to see inside a tissue sample. Learn how a fluorescence microscope can create a high contrast image and answer biological questions.

Biology

Food webs: Learn about interactions between trophic levels

Help reduce the impact from humans on an aquatic ecosystem on an exoplanet by using your knowledge of trophic cascades in a food web.

Biology

Foraging: Build a foraging theory to save the crops

Join the human colony on the fictional exoplanet Astakos IV to study the local alien species. What do they eat?hy and where do they forage for food? Can you build a model using our foraging theories from Earth?

Physics

Forces and Free-body Diagrams: Learn how to navigate a drone

Finish your training in basic physics concepts to join a cutting edge mechanical engineering lab. Team up with Sir Isaac Newton and understand how various forces affect the motion of objects.

Chemistry

Formulas and Equation Balancing: Save the chemistry lab!

Discover the importance of chemical reaction equations and learn how to balance them. Use your balancing skills to get to the research facility control room before an incoming comet strikes!

Chemistry

Fractional Distillation: Separate a liquid mixture into its fractions

Learn how to separate a mixture of liquids into its pure components through fractional distillation. Partner with our lab assistant Dr. One to learn how to use a fractionating column and set up a successful distillation!

Chemistry

From Algae to Bioenergy

Join the project manager Marie in her goal to successfully produce biodiesel from algal oil. Be involved in a revolutionary scientific discovery that can eliminate the environmental impacts accompanied by burning coal for energy.

Chemistry

Functional Groups and Basic Chemical Tests

Join Dr. One on a mission to discover what is in the mysterious painkillers that your friend Simon has gotten hold of. You will identify which functional groups this chemical compound should contain and perform chemical tests to verify their existence.

Physics

Fusion: The Future of Energy

Fusion is the future of energy and it's up to you to figure out how to harness it. Explore this advanced fusion reactor and learn all of the science needed to have the power of the sun in the palm of your hand.

Biology

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.

Biology

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!

Biology

Gene Regulation

Open your eyes to the vast potential of gene regulation, where you can reprogram cells into any cell that fits your needs. Will you able to help the doctor in restoring the sight of a visually impaired girl?

Biology

Gene linkage and pedigree analyses

Put yourself in the place of a genetic counselor and find out if the daughter of a breast cancer patient is at a higher risk of developing breast cancer herself. Help her by constructing a pedigree and finding the defective gene by using linkage analysis.

Biology

Genetic Transfer in Bacteria: Prevent the rise of superbugs!

Prevent Dr. One from wiping out humanity! Complete a number of learning games to understand the three ways of genetic transfer in bacteria, transduction, transformation, and conjugation, and use your learnings to prevent the rise of superbugs.

Biology

Genetically Engineered Machine

Join an iGEM team to design a biosensor that can sense biofilm forming bacteria.

Biology

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!

Biology

Gram Stain: Test yourself in Gram Stain Procedure

Familiarize yourself with details about Gram Stain procedure. Learn about reagents used during the experiment and repeat the protocol in stepwise manner, to be more than ready for real time Gram staining!

Biology

Gross Function of the Nervous System: Let your brain learn about itself

Enter Labster's Anatomy and Physiology lab to explore the structures and functions of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Learn about the nervous system’s fundamental cells and neurons and how they communicate with each other through synapses.

Chemistry

HPLC

Learn how different factors such as heat and humidity can alter drug stability. Identify the components of the HPLC machine and use it to separate and measure the different compounds of a medicine.

Chemistry

Heating Curves and Phase Changes: Distil Ethanol

Learn how to generate and interpret the heating curves of ethanol and water. Discover how to relate heating curve data to the recorded observations of the substance on heating and determine the physical properties from the generated curve.

Medicine

Hematology: Introduction to Blood

Explore the morphology of different types of blood cells and differentiate them via Giemsa staining. Separate the components of blood and analyze the results of blood samples using an automated hematology analyzer.

Biology

Homeostatic Control: How does the human body keep itself in balance?

Ever wondered how your body constantly regulates itself to stay healthy? Visit the Homeostatic Control lab to learn all about the concept of homeostasis and how it can be applied to a wide range of systems, from blood pressure to body temperature.

Biology

Homogenization: Developing better-tasting milk

Help Adam the farmer grow his milk business by exploring the basic concepts of homogenization, a standard procedure in milk processing.

General Science

Human Impact on Climate Change: Balance human emissions and a growing population

Use a climate model to investigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on people and the environment. Why are scientists pushing to decrease global emissions? What will happen if we don’t? The fate of the world is in your hands!

Biology

Human Impacts on the Water Cycle

A property developer wants to turn a forest into an urban area. Dive into the water cycle and model how human influences can impact different hydrological processes.

Chemistry

Hydrocarbon Nomenclature and Representations

Join Dr. One on a mission to figure out how to systematically name hydrocarbons and interpret and use the various core formula types for organic compounds.

Chemistry

Ideal Gas Law: Apply to save a life

Use the Gas Thermometry technique to validate the Ideal Gas Law. Define the absolute zero temperature by carrying out a gas thermometry experiment; handling extreme temperatures with the help of your assistant.

Chemistry

Ideal Gas Law: Build your own temperature scale

Use the Gas Thermometry technique to validate the Ideal Gas Law. Observe the behavior of an ideal gas and create your own temperature scale, while handling extreme temperatures with the help of your assistant.

Chemistry

Ideal Gas Law: Introduction

Observe the behavior of an ideal gas and the effects on this behavior when external variables are altered. Learn how the different variables affect the behavior and understand the relation of these variables to the ideal gas law equation.

Biology

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.

Chemistry

Identification of an Organic Compound by Spectroscopy: How fast can you escape?

Take on the challenge of analyzing the spectra of four key analytical techniques — Mass Spectrometry, Infrared spectroscopy, Proton NMR and Carbon-NMR — to identify the structure of an unknown organic compound.

Biology

Immunology: Immunoassay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Investigating antibody production patterns in populations helps us understand how diseases like COVID-19 spread. Conduct immunoassays to detect blood serum IgG and IgM to discover the vaccination and infection status of a community exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Chemistry

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.

Biology

Inheritance with Pedigrees

Investigate the principles of inheritance and draw a pedigree tree to understand how color blindness is inherited.

Biology

Inheritance with Punnett Squares

Investigate the principles of inheritance and help a family determine whether future generations will inherit color blindness.

Chemistry

Intermolecular Forces (Principles): Rediscover the forces to save the world!

What would happen to our world if intermolecular forces disappeared? Take on a new challenge with Dr. One to learn about intermolecular forces and save the day by putting the world back together.

Chemistry

Intermolecular Forces: Rediscover the forces to save the world!

Oh no -- the world’s intermolecular forces have all been disabled! Now, you must collaborate with Dr. One to put everything back in order. Can you return the world to its original state by rediscovering all the intermolecular forces?

Biology

Intestinal Glucose Transport: Study a mouse intestine for diagnosis

Turn a mouse intestine inside out and use it to study glucose transport in order to figure out what is wrong with an infant.

Medicine

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.

Biology

Introduction to Food Macromolecules

Can you use your food macromolecule knowledge to convince your friend to change her diet to a healthier one?

Chemistry

Introduction to Groups of the Periodic Table

Help Dr. One get the periodic table ready in time! By directly observing the elements’ characteristics, and investigating trends in atomic properties, your mission is to figure out where a number of fallen out elements belong.

Medicine

Introduction to Immunology: Explore the immune system and save the world!

Global health is everyone’s responsibility. Become a pathogen and invade a body to discover how immune cells and organs provide protection. Learn how researchers from across the planet work together to save the world from pathogenic infections.

Biology

Introduction to Immunology: Organs and cells of the immune system

The immune system is a complex structure of cells, tissues and organs that work together to protect our bodies from infection. Dive into the complex structures and functions of those organs and cells that protect us from various pathogens every day!

Biology

Introduction to Protein Synthesis

Explore the structure of proteins and learn about the synthesis process inside the cells.

Biology

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.

Chemistry

Introduction to Qualitative Analysis of Elements

Help Dr. One get the periodic table ready in time! By directly observing the elements’ characteristics and testing their flame color, your mission is to figure out where a number of fallen out elements belong in the periodic table.

Chemistry

Introduction to Radioactive Decay

A meteor has crashed to Earth! Search the crash site with a Geiger counter, and bring a radioactive sample back to the lab. Learn all about types of decay, decay series, and half-life. Help Dr. One and Marie Curie figure out what’s in that rock.

Biology

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?

Biology

Introduction to the Female Reproductive System

Enter Labster's Anatomy and Physiology lab to explore female gross anatomy and learn about the structure, function, and physiology of the female reproductive system.

Biology

Introduction to the Male Reproductive System: Dive inside the duct system!

Explore and label an interactive detailed 3D model of the male reproductive system. Dive even deeper by traveling inside the male reproductive tract, learning about the locations of the ducts and functions of the glands along the way.

Biology

Introduction to the Nervous System: Subdivisions of the nervous system

Step into Labster's Anatomy and Physiology lab to learn about the nervous system and its subdivisions. Explore the various bodily functions that the nervous system controls.

Biology

Introductory Lab

Learn about lab safety, scientific methods, diffusion and osmosis, acids, bases and how to prepare buffers.

Biology

Invertebrate Model System: Find the genetic cause of a disease using C. elegans

Help a group of doctors in their search for the genetic cause of a rare disease by performing a genetic screening using C. elegans as the animal model.

Biology

Iodine Test for Complex Carbohydrates

Have you ever wondered what starch is? Discover the structure of complex carbohydrates and how you can test for the presence of complex carbohydrates in food samples.

Chemistry

Ion Exchange Chromatography

Learn about the function and principles of ion exchange chromatography and get hands-on experience by purifying a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease to help studying the relation between the protein and the disease.

Chemistry

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.

Physics

Kepler's laws: Explore the orbits of other worlds

Travel through interstellar space and learn about Kepler's laws exploring an alien planetary system.

Chemistry

Kjeldahl Method: Estimate the protein content in food

Measure the protein content in a food sample with the Kjeldahl method, and investigate whether the apparent result has been tampered with by using LC-MS/MS.

Biology

Lab Safety

Survive your first day in the lab by identifying the different hazards you might encounter in an unsafe laboratory. You will be introduced to the lab dress code, safety equipment and the do's and don'ts when working in a lab.

Biology

Landscape Ecology: Determine persistence in a spatially heterogeneous landscape

Discover unique areas within an exoplanet’s landscape and apply your findings to predict the persistence of an alien species by estimating colonization and extinction rates.

Physics

Law of Universal Gravitation: Use gravity to orbit the moon

Learn the basics of gravitation by weighing the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton and observe the Law of Universal Gravitation in action by changing the mass of the Earth. Travel in space and perform a thought experiment about orbits.

Biology

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.

Physics

Light and Polarization: Learn from Einstein the properties of light

Learn how to use polarizing filters like real photographers do. Albert Einstein will help you shed light on the fascinating world of electromagnetic waves by playing with lasers, mirrors & polarizing filters.

Chemistry

Liquid-liquid Extraction: Extract caffeine from your everyday drinks

Learn how to use a separating funnel to extract and dry a water soluble compound, such as caffeine from tea or coffee. Can you also predict the liquid phases in which the compound can be found?

Chemistry

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.

Biology

MALDI Investigation into Doping

Collaborate with an anti-doping agent at a bicycle race. Test athletes’ urine for a doping substance using mass spectrometry. Can you find out which athlete has been cheating?

Physics

Magnetic Fields

Learn about magnets and magnetic fields in Labster's magnetism lab and use your knowledge to solve puzzles and capture an unruly rover.

Biology

Marine Biology: Investigate a massive fish death

Become an environmental investigator and solve a massive fish kill mystery. First, learn about the different trophic levels of the ecosystem. You will then perform a fish necropsy and use a spectrophotometer to analyze oxygen levels in the water.

Chemistry

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!

Physics

Materials Science with Neutrons: Observe what happens inside a battery!

Perform neutron diffraction and quasi-elastic neutron scattering experiments at a research facility while helping a group of scientists in the Arctic. Observe the structure of atomic layers inside a battery and see how some atoms move when it discharges.

Chemistry

Matter and Phase Changes: Distil ethanol

Rescue a town from a fuel crisis by using your knowledge about matter and phase changes principles and performing ethanol distillation.

General Science

Measurements and Uncertainty

Take a scientific approach to the classic task of guessing how many candies are in a jar. Rather than random guesses, utilize good experimental design to select the correct measurement tools, continually refine the approach, and account for uncertainty in the data.

Medicine

Medical Genetics

Learn about Mendelian genetics, linkage analysis, hereditary cancer, tumor suppressor, oncogenes and how to identify a defective gene in a family.

Biology

Meiosis, Mitosis and Plant Gametes

Help the laboratory investigate some of their samples of lily anthers and explore the phases of meiosis in them. Learn the basics of meiosis and mitosis by comparing the two processes.

Biology

Meiosis: How is color blindness inherited?

Investigate the principles of Mendelian inheritance and discover how color blindness is inherited by observing chromosomal rearrangement in an animation.

Biology

Meiosis: Understand how traits are inherited

Follow a couple as they go through IVF treatment in order to have a baby. Understand how traits are inherited from one generation to the next and how cell division plays an important role in forming, growing and repairing the human body.

Chemistry

Melting Point Analysis: Pure or impure?

Learn the techniques and application of melting point analysis and substance purity graphs. Explore the application of the technique in organic syntheses when determining the purity of a solid organic compound.

Biology

Mendelian Inheritance: From genes to traits

Investigate the principles of Mendelian inheritance and help a patient determine if his future children will inherit his color-blindness.

Biology

Microanatomy of a Neuron: Build your own neurons!

Step into Labster's anatomy and physiology lab to learn about the fundamental units of your nervous system; the neurons! Learn about the structure, classification, and special functions of neurons, as well as their mode of communication through synapses.

Biology

Microscopy

Analyze the microscopic structure of the small intestine and learn the advantages and limitations of light, fluorescence and electron microscopy.

Biology

Mitosis: Using a toxic compound from the yew tree in cancer therapy

Join a cell biology research group to find out how a poisonous compound from a yew tree can be used in cancer therapy. You will be immersed in an animation of a human cell and use light and fluorescence microscopy to study cell division.

Chemistry

Mixtures: Homogeneous or heterogeneous?

Find different mixtures on an alien planet and use your knowledge of mixtures and compounds to determine if they are safe to drink. Can you survive long enough to escape the planet?

Biology

Molecular Cloning

Dive into recombinant DNA technology with cell division, transcription and translation. Includes concepts in restriction enzymes, cloning and reporter genes.

Biology

Monogenic Disorders

Learn about the monogenic disorder Cystic Fibrosis and its inheritance from one generation to the next.

Biology

Multiplex Automated Genomic Engineering (MAGE): Conjuring massive mutations

Gain insight into how scientists can improve children’s eyesight by genetically modifying E.coli to produce more beta-carotene.

Biology

Muscle tissues: An overview

Explore the distribution and function of the three different muscle tissues found in the human body. Examine them down to the cellular level and dive further into their molecular structures to reveal the fascinating mechanisms behind muscle contractions.

Physics

Neutron Scattering: Investigating Bragg's Law

Scientists in Greenland need your help! You'll need to discover the effect of low temperatures on scientific equipment at a research facility. Check atomic layer structures inside a battery and use neutron scattering to solve the mystery!

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Explore our Growing Catalog of Virtual Labs

Evolution: Generations of an allele

Evolution: Identifying a deep sea creature

Evolution: Journey of the canids

Evolution: Taxonomic tree of life

Exercise Physiology

Experimental Design

Exploring Human Reproductive Cells

Exploring a Distillation Apparatus

FACS

Fehling's Test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?

Fermentation: Optimize bio-ethanol production

Fission: Discover a powerful energy source

Flow Injection Analysis

Fluorescence Microscopy

Food webs: Learn about interactions between trophic levels

Foraging: Build a foraging theory to save the crops

Forces and Free-body Diagrams: Learn how to navigate a drone

Formulas and Equation Balancing: Save the chemistry lab!

Fractional Distillation: Separate a liquid mixture into its fractions

From Algae to Bioenergy

Functional Groups and Basic Chemical Tests

Fusion: The Future of Energy

Gel Electrophoresis: Visualize and separate nucleic acids

Gene Expression Unit: Use sequencing to unveil a gene linked to obesity

Gene Regulation

Gene linkage and pedigree analyses

Genetic Transfer in Bacteria: Prevent the rise of superbugs!

Genetically Engineered Machine

Gram Stain: How stains and counterstains work

Gram Stain: Test yourself in Gram Stain Procedure

Gross Function of the Nervous System: Let your brain learn about itself

HPLC

Heating Curves and Phase Changes: Distil Ethanol

Hematology: Introduction to Blood

Homeostatic Control: How does the human body keep itself in balance?

Homogenization: Developing better-tasting milk

Human Impact on Climate Change: Balance human emissions and a growing population

Human Impacts on the Water Cycle

Hydrocarbon Nomenclature and Representations

Ideal Gas Law: Apply to save a life

Ideal Gas Law: Build your own temperature scale

Ideal Gas Law: Introduction

Identification of Unknown Bacteria: Help save baby Kuppelfangs from an epidemic!

Identification of an Organic Compound by Spectroscopy: How fast can you escape?

Immunology: Immunoassay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Infrared Spectroscopy

Inheritance with Pedigrees

Inheritance with Punnett Squares

Intermolecular Forces (Principles): Rediscover the forces to save the world!

Intermolecular Forces: Rediscover the forces to save the world!

Intestinal Glucose Transport: Study a mouse intestine for diagnosis

Introduction to Echocardiography: Use different projections to diagnose patients

Introduction to Food Macromolecules

Introduction to Groups of the Periodic Table

Introduction to Immunology: Explore the immune system and save the world!

Introduction to Immunology: Organs and cells of the immune system

Introduction to Protein Synthesis

Introduction to Pulmonary Ventilation: Process of respiration and physiology of the respiratory system

Introduction to Qualitative Analysis of Elements

Introduction to Radioactive Decay

Introduction to the Central Nervous System: Explore your body’s command center!

Introduction to the Female Reproductive System

Introduction to the Male Reproductive System: Dive inside the duct system!

Introduction to the Nervous System: Subdivisions of the nervous system

Introductory Lab

Invertebrate Model System: Find the genetic cause of a disease using C. elegans

Iodine Test for Complex Carbohydrates

Ion Exchange Chromatography

Ionic and Covalent Bonds

Kepler's laws: Explore the orbits of other worlds

Kjeldahl Method: Estimate the protein content in food

Lab Safety

Landscape Ecology: Determine persistence in a spatially heterogeneous landscape

Law of Universal Gravitation: Use gravity to orbit the moon

Light Microscopy

Light and Polarization: Learn from Einstein the properties of light

Liquid-liquid Extraction: Extract caffeine from your everyday drinks

Litmus Test for Carboxylic Acids

MALDI Investigation into Doping