Biomanufacturing Kit: Liquid culture™ (use with the BioExplorer, Bioreactor or Shaker Incubator)

Overview

Use this STEM science kit to grow your engineered bacteria in liquid culture to experience biomanufacturing, a common industry and research technique used in the fields of genetic engineering and biotechnology. You must have a BioExplorer™ desktop biolab or your own Bioreactor/Shaker incubator to use this science kit.

The BioManufacturing Kit includes LB Growth Media bags and selection of antibiotics which allow you to grow colourful engineered bacteria for 24-36 hours/per LB Growth Media bag (200 mL) - plenty of time to get pigments or smells to express! Want to grow longer, or experiment more? Add more LB Growth Media bags to your kit using the dropdown. You can also use this kit to to grow your own engineered organism after you’ve completed an Engineer-it Kit™ 

This kit can also include a Clean-it Kit to clean the BioExplorer before and after use. Add from the dropdown.

With this experiment kit, you will:

1. Optional, if using the BioExplorer: Sterilize the bioreactor section of the BioExplorer
2. Make and fill your bioreactor or shaker incubator glassware with selective liquid media
3. Inoculate the liquid culture with the provided pre-engineered bacteria or your own Engineer-it Kit result
4. Monitor and guide the growth of the bacteria in liquid culture

(1) Biomanufacturing Kit™: All the ingredients needed to brew-up your engineered organisms: LB Growth media, selection antibiotics, inoculation loop or syringe and a pre-engineered bacteria in one of 10 colors. As a standard kit, the Biomanufacturing Kit includes enough LB Growth Media and antibiotics to grow your engineered bacteria for 24 hours - plenty of time to get pigments! Add a few more Food (LB) Bags in the drop-down to grow your bacteria longer.

Optional: You also get a Clean-it Kit™ with all 3 cleaning solutions to clean and sterilize your BioExplorer™ before and after use.

Necessary equipmennt:
You must have a BioExplorer™ or your own Bioreactor or shaker incubator to use this kit.

Cleaning and safety supplies are not included in the kit. Necessary safety and cleaning supplies are latex or nitrile gloves, and a chlorinated bleach cleaner or a 10% solution of chlorinated bleach in a spray bottle (you can make this by adding 9 parts water to 1 part bleach in a spray bottle). You can add a Mini Safety Set to your kit which includes gloves and a reusable plastic apron to protect your clothes.

For more information about safety, set up and clean up, you can have a look at the instruction manual for the experiment linked in the Ressources section below, and at the "Practicing safe science" page.

Shipping Times

Experiment kits are shipped 1-10 working days after you place your order. If you require yours for a specific date or event, please contact us before or with your order # so that we can try to make it happen for you! ☺︎ 

Storage

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