Introductory Experiments on Biomolecules and their Interactions provides a novel approach to teaching biomolecules in the lab. While featuring the requisite fundamentals, it also captures the author's experience in industry, thus providing unique, up-to-date experiments which take the learning experience one-step further.

Foreword and Introduction Laboratory safety policies, notebook, lab report formatting & other expectations Experiment 1: An introduction to basic math and operations in the biomolecular laboratory Experiment 2: Buffer preparation and pH Experiment 3: Amino acid properties and an introduction to chromatography Experiment 4: Rapid purification, gel electrophoresis and enzyme activity assay of the firefly protein enzyme luciferase Experiment 5: Hexokinase and G6DH catalyzed reactions of glucose measurement Experiment 6: Polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequence analysis Experiment 7: Investigating protein:nucleic acid interactions by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (emsa) Experiment 8: RNA quantification and degradation kinetics Experiment 9: Microscale preparation of liposome under mock biotechnology conditions: testing its protein interaction  Experiment 10: Preparation and characterization of a fluorescently tagged liposome-protein-DNA particle as a simple model "artificial cell¿