Welcome to the Labster Theory main page. Here you will find access to the main theory pages for all our simulations. Use the links below to access the main theory page for each of them. Have fun learning!

Demo

• Demo Simulation

General Science

• Experimental Design
  • Counting Cells: Control the Epidemic
  • The Scientific Method
• Lab Safety
• Pipetting
• Spectrophotometry and Beer-Lambert Law
• Spectrophotometers: Building and exploring the instrument

Biology

Anatomy & Physiology

• Absorption In the Small and Large Intestines: Journey from the stomach to the bloodstream
• Action Potential Lab: Experiment with a squid neuron
• Anatomy of the Respiratory System: Help rebuild a broken system
• Blood Components
• Body Planes and Sections: Locate a chimpanzee’s injuries
• Body Structure and Organization: Help identify a potentially failing organ system
• Cardio-respiratory Physiology: How can seals dive so deep for so long?
• Cardiovascular Function During Exercise: Learn how your body reacts to exercise
• Endocrinology
• Exercise Physiology
• Intestinal Glucose Transport
• Introduction to Pulmonary Physiology
• Introduction to the Central Nervous System
• Introduction to the Nervous System
• Introduction to the Female Reproductive System
• Introduction to the Male Reproductive System
• Muscle Tissues
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Regeneration Biology
• Renal Physiology
• Sensory Transduction
• Skin Layers and Organ Anatomy
• Skeletal Muscle
• Skeletal Muscle Movement
• Smooth Muscle
• Thermal Homeostasis

Biochemistry

• Antibodies: Why are some blood types incompatible?
• Cancer Sample Preparation for Mass Spectrometry
• Carbohydrates: The sugars that feed us
• Cellular Respiration (Principles): Measure energy consumption during exercise
• Cellular Respiration: Measuring energy consumption during exercise
  • Cellular Respiration: Glycolysis
  • Cellular Respiration: The Krebs Cycle
  • Cellular Respiration: The Electron Transport Chain
  • Cellular Respiration: Respirometry
• DNA: Structure and Function
• Electron Transport Chain
  • Photosynthesis: Electron transport chain
  • Photosynthesis: Algae pigment analysis
• ELISA
• Enzyme Kinetics
• Fermentation
• Homogenization
• Introduction to Food Macromolecules
  • Benedict’s Test for Simple Carbohydrates
  • Iodine Test for Complex Carbohydrates
  • Biuret’s Test for Proteins
  • Sudan IV Test for Lipids
• Introductory Lab
• Osmosis
• Pigment Extraction
• Properties of Water
• Protein Denaturation
• Protein Synthesis
  • Introduction to Protein Synthesis
  • Treatment for Chronic Kidney Disease
  • MALDI Investigation into Doping
• SDS-PAGE
• Western Blot Transfer

Biotechnology

• Bioinformatics: An introduction
• ChIP-exo
• Molecular Cloning
• Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE)
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Synthetic Biology
• Tissue engineering
• Uracil-Excision based cloning (USER)

Cellular and Molecular Biology

• Cell Culture Basics: Plate, split and freeze human cells
• Cell Division (Principles): Mitosis and Meiosis
• Cell Membrane and Transport: Learn how transporters keep cells healthy
  • Cell Membrane and Transport: Types of transporter proteins
  • Cell Membrane and Transport: Modifying the cell membrane
• Cell Structure: Cell theory and internal organelles
  • Building Animal Cells
• Confocal Microscopy
• CRISPR-Cas applied to TGF-beta induced EMT
• Electron Microscopy (Coming soon)
• Embryology
• Fluorescence-automated Cell Sorting (FACS)
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Gene Expression unit
• Gene Regulation
• Genetically Engineered Machine
• Homeostatic Control
• Light Microscopy
• Meiosis
  • Exploring Human Reproductive Cells
  • Meiosis, Mitosis and Plant Gametes
• Microscopy
• Mitosis
• Nucleic Acid Gel Electrophoresis
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• RNA extraction
• Signal Transduction
  • Protein Transfer: Perform Dry Western Blot
  • Signal Transduction: Choose the best cancer inhibitor
• Viral Gene Therapy
• Your Diet & Your DNA

Ecology

• Behavioral Thermoregulation: Help keep a gecksi alive!
• Biodiversity: Assess and compare biodiversity on an exoplanet
• Biomes: Identify and create the main biomes on Earth
• Competition: Learn to identify and quantify competition between species
• Ecological Niches
• Ecosystem Dynamics
• Eutrophication
• Food Webs
• Foraging
• Landscape Ecology
• Marine Biology
  • Thermal Effects on Marine Oxygen Levels
• Population Growth
• Spatial Ecology
• Trophic Levels

Evolution and Life Diversity

• Evolution
  • Evolution: Taxonomic tree of life
  • Evolution: Journey of the canids
• Evolution: Founding Theories and Principles
  • Evolution: Identifying a deep sea creature
  • Evolution: Generations of an Allele

Genetics

• Animal Genetics
• Cytogenetics: Perform a prenatal diagnosis
• Invertebrate Model System
• Medical Genetics
  • Cancer: Impact of BRCA mutations
• Mendelian Inheritance
  • Pedigree Trees
  • Punnett Squares
  • Meiosis: How is color blindness inherited?
• Monogenic Disorders

Medicine

• Introduction to Echocardiography
• Diabetes
• Heart Ultrasound Projections
• Hematology
• Parkinson's Disease
  • Ion Exchange Chromatography

Microbiology

• Aseptic Technique: Culture your sample without contamination
• Bacterial Isolation
• Bacterial Growth Curves: Experiment with bacterial growth
• Bacterial Quantification by culture
• Biosafety
• Bacterial Cell Structures: An introduction to the bacterial cell
  • Bacterial shapes and movement
  • Comparing Bacterial Structures
• Control of Microbial Growth: Explore decontamination and selective toxicity
• Genetic Transfer in Bacteria
• Gram Staining
  • Gram positive and Gram negative cell walls
  • Test yourself in Gram Stain procedure
  • How stains and counterstains work
• Identification of Unknown Bacteria
• Introduction to Immunology
  • Organs and cells of immune system
  • Immunoassays for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
• Pasteurization and Sterilization

Pharmacology

• Cancer Pharmacology: Provide recommendations in a multi-million dollar project

Structural Biology

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

Chemistry

Chemical Bonding

• Intermolecular Forces
• Ionic and Covalent Bonds
• Lewis structures (Coming soon)

Chemical Equations

• Equilibrium
• Formula Writing and Balancing equations
• Stoichiometry
  • Stoichiometry: Avogadro's number and molecular calculations
  • Stoichiometry: Gravimetric Analysis

Chemical Tests

• Azo Dye Test: Identify primary aromatic amines
• Benedict’s test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?
• Bromine test: An essential in the chemist’s toolbelt!
• Ceric Ammonium Nitrate Test: Which compound contains alcohol?
• Fehling’s Test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?
• Phthalein-Dye Test: Finding Phenols Through Fluorescence
• Tollen’s test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?
• Conductivity testing

Laboratory Techniques

• Chemistry Safety
  • Environmental Impacts of Coal power plants
  • Chemistry Safety: Hazard Symbols
  • From Algae to Bioenergy
  • Chemistry Safety: Dispose of Chemical Waste
• Fractional distillation
• Identification of an unknown organic compound with spectroscopy
• Kjeldahl Method
• Liquid liquid extractions
• Purification and separation of a mixture
• Recrystallization: Dissolve your solid and precipitate your crystals
• Recrystallization: Filter your crystals and measure the melting point
• Recrystallization: Purify your solid
• Simple Distillation
• Solution Preparation
• Thin Layer Chromatography
• Titration

Lab Machines

• Carbon NMR: What is the mystery compound?
• Flow Injection Analysis (FIA)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Proton NMR
• Mass Spectrometry
• Melting Point Analysis

General Chemistry

• Acids and Bases: Acidity and Alkalinity in Everyday Substances
• Acids and Bases (Principles): Avoid falling in a lake of acid!
• Advanced Acids and Bases
• Atomic Structure: Assess the possibility of life on other planets
  • Atomic Structure (Principles): Atoms and isotopes
  • Atomic Structure (Principles): Bohr and quantum models
• Elements and Compounds
• Mixtures: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous?
• Nuclear Chemistry
• Periodic Table
  • Introduction to Qualitative Analysis of Elements
  • Introduction to groups of the Periodic Table
• Physical and chemical changes
• Physical and chemical properties

Inorganic Chemistry

• Electrolysis
• Chemical Nomenclature: Learn the importance of inorganic compounds in life!
• Redox Reactions

Physical Chemistry

• Basic Chemistry Thermodynamics: Solve the challenge of storing renewable energy
  • Calorimetry: Using a bomb calorimeter
  • Energy surfaces and spontaneous reactions
• Matter and Phase changes
• Reaction Kinetics

Organic Chemistry

• Aromatic Compound Nomenclature: Naming benzene’s derivatives
• Organic Chemistry Introduction
  • Carbon Valence, Hybridization and Angles
  • Functional Groups and Basic Chemical Tests
  • Hydrocarbon Nomenclature and Representations
• Organic Chemistry Reactivity Rules
• Principles of Molecular Resonance
• Stereochemistry

Organic Reactions

• Aspirin Synthesis
• Electrophilic Addition: explore reactions of hydrocarbons
• Electrophilic aromatic substitution
• Elimination reactions
• Nucleophilic Addition: explore the Grignard reaction
• Structures and reactions of alkanes and alkyl halides
• Structure and reactions of alkenes
• [Structure and reactions of alkynes (coming soon)]
• Substitution reactions
• Substitution vs. elimination
• Synthetic polymers

Earth Science

• Atmospheric Circulation, Climate, and Biomes: Determine the lab’s location!
• Carbon Cycle
• Continental Drift Theory: Past and future locations of the world's continents
• Drivers of Plate Tectonics: Replicate Earth’s convection currents
• Earth's Atmosphere
• Human impact on Climate Change
• Human impacts on the Water Cycle
• Nitrogen Cycle
• Plate Boundaries and their Crustal Features
• Timescales of Change
• Water Cycle

Engineering

• Concrete Materials Testing: Learn the key properties of durable concrete
• Silo design
• Wastewater Treatment

Physics

• Applications of Buoyancy: Flotation
• Measurements and Uncertainty

Electricity and Electrostatics

• Basic Electricity: Understand how electricity works
• Electric Resistance
• Coulomb's Law: Electrifying electrostatics

Mechanics

• Collisions: Elastic and inelastic forces
• Conservation of Energy (Principles): Unleash the roller coaster's potential
• Conservation of Energy: maximize the mechanical energy of a rollercoaster
• Forces and Free Body Diagrams
• Kepler's Laws
• Law of Universal Gravitation
• Newton's laws of motion
  • Newton's first law of motion
  • Newton's second law of motion
• Vectors and Scalars

Modern Physics

• Materials Science with Neutrons
  • Neutron Diffraction: Investigating Bragg's Law
  • Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering

Optics

• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Light and Polarization
• Wave Model of Light

Quantum Mechanics

• The Photoelectric Effect

Radiation Based Science

• Intro to Radioactive Decay
• Fission
• Fusion

Thermodynamics

• Ideal Gas Law
  • Introduction to the Ideal Gas Law
  • Ideal Gas Law: Apply principles to save a life

Waves

• Propagation of Sound: Help a rock star tune their guitar!
• Springs and Masses
• What are Waves

References

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