Lab Week Crossword

2. a handy item of PPE to protect from chemical and biological hazards in the lab
3. an acronym to follow when the fire alarm sounds
5. this makes every long lab shift good til the last drop
6. it will help you get a close look at your work in may labs
10. a common diluent and definitely not the bottled tears of overworked lab scientists
13. the kind of puncture your doctor orders if they need to test your brain juice
15. a multitasking machine that may turn out hundreds of lab results per hour
16. a reaction facilitator but not part of the end product
18. otherwise known as a basic pH
20. a doctor’s order when the patient is too anemic
22. a flask that can accurately measure a single volume
26. this may be blood urine spit or stool but the lab has the method to test them all
28. the most efficient way to accurately measure small volumes of liquid
29. where you might find colonies in the lab

1. Its bloody work but they’ll find those veins
4. a special faucet used in case of eye-mergency
5. this item spins the blood right round
7. this item can often be considered under the microscope
8. this tiny immune molecule can be induced by vaccination
9. this pair of bean-shaped organs are filtration machines
11. the liquid your blood cells live in
12. the core of hemoglobin that does all the heavy oxygen carrying
14. the best way to break the cycle of infection
17. this small laboratory container fits neatly in a rack
19. the lab’s greenhouse keeping bugs growing all year long
21. without this your your crystal violet washes away when gram staining
23. this lab can tell if you’ve got bad drugs
24. a little clean-up at the beginning and end of your shift to keep everyone safe
25. it keeps blood from clotting in patients and in vacutainer tubes
27. you take a little DNA and make a LOT of copies