Cell Culture Lab Tour

The Department of Bioengineering at U of Illinois has provided an awesome facility for students to learn the art and science of cell culture and tissue engineering. Joanne takes you on a tour. Videographer is my good friend, visit his site, his photography is awesome. http://www.chrisbrownphoto.com/

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• cell
• culture
• lab
• tour
• Joanne
• Manaster

[foolsgoldmarc72]

I am gobsmacked. At the Biosafety Cabinet you say its there to protect. Obviously it protects the user and the product using laminar flow, yet you have no gloves or even a lab coat on. You may as well do your manipulations on the open bench

[joannelovesscience]

@foolsgoldmarc72 Biosafety level 1. Go read the CDC's BMBL and my comments above.

[lucianna29]

Sem noção! Fazendo brincadeiras num laboratório.Uma professora que fala de biosegurança e não pratica. Deprimente! Tirar um bebê da estufa! ridículo, isso nós ja´sabemos, mostre algo iovador.Silencie um cancer e volte a postar no video! ridícula,tiradora de sarro!

[joannelovesscience]

Respond to this video...

1) Biosafety level 1 items do not require gloving.

2) Touching my clothes would compromise my samples, I don't and my students are not allowed to touch their faces, hair, cellphones, etc.

3)Hands are sprayed down with ethanol before entering the hood.

4)Hands must ALWAYS be washed upon leaving the culture room.

5) Students are worse offenders when it comes to having aseptic technique when wearing gloves b/c they assume they are clean.

[5ft10inGuy]

wow I wouldn't be able to concentrate on my lab work if we where in the same lab

[joannelovesscience]

@nospamreceived Jumping to erroneous conclusions based on a 3 minute video is quite unprofessional and unscientific.

I train 100 people per year in that facility. Complete beginners: engineers with no biology experience, teenagers in high school and undergraduates. The contamination rate is close to zero. Aseptic stringency is quite high. We don't use antifungals. Please see my reply to comments above for further clarification. 

[doctorzhew]

@joannelovesscience

Gloves must be worn to protect hands from exposure to hazardous

materials. Glove selection should be based on an appropriate risk

assessment. Alternatives to latex gloves should be available. Wash

hands prior to leaving the laboratory

above sentences are picked from CDC's BMBL.

i need you explain why you think 1) Biosafety level 1 items do not require gloving.

[shellybirdy]

interesting video and very informative

[willbirful]

love the work here

[jessyjessy4]

love the video man

[rodswebdesign]

great video thanks

[xtremetom180]

you have some great stuff here

[eth6706]

@mphello You are an absolute loon. I'm so glad youre a person of no power in this world.

[mphello]

So, when will we be growing babies in the lab (as you did - heh heh)

so women don't have to go through the hell of pregnancy?

Not that humans should breed at all. World population needs to be brought down ASAP to < 1 billion. Better to do it through mandatory birth control via vasectomies of males.

But, when the world is made a perfectly fair place and breeding is allowed again, it should be done ONLY in the laboratory under controlled conditions and bioengineering.

[nahaymath]

I used all my tuition waiver credits (30) to earn my Associate of Biotechnology in 2009 just so I could be inside a bio laboratory one last time in my life (since I worked at Rohm and Haas in 1988). It's a completely unique and honored privilege, frankly.

I want my own high-tech Biosafety Level 4 lab right in my own home so I can do experiments! (just kidding) But, I REALLY want to break into the field of biosynthesizing meat to reduce animal suffering.

[DNYAP]

@joannelovesscience The nerve.Their counties have different standard that ours: Safety Level 1: Does not immediately require artificial barriers (gloves, goggles). Now, goggles are always a good idea because who knows what could enter your, eye. But again, this is a BIO lab, NOT a chemical lab, she is not being exposed to fumes and the lab is not wet. Hmm, and she is a teacher,so, I am pretty sure she knows what she is doing, or else she would not have access to the lab in the first place...