Treatment for Chronic Kidney Disease

Welcome to Labster! In this lab, you will learn about protein synthesis, while also helping people with chronic kidney disease.

• Chronic kidney disease

• Anemia

• Erythropoietin (EPO)

• Erythropoietin applications

• Recombinant EPO

• EPO detection

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• The central dogma of molecular biology

• RNA

• RNA structure

• Ribosome

• Codons

• DNA and RNA template

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• Lab biosafety

• Transfection

• Bacteria expression systems

• Mammalian expression system

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• Mass spectrometry

• Viewing the histogram from the mass spec machine