Lab Week 2026

3. a low-price platform for testing a million SNPs at once
4. an organic solvent commonly used to sanitize laboratory spaces
5. a chemical compound that absorbs light at an excitation wavelength and emits light at an emission wavelength
9. a process where complimentary single-stranded nucleic acids combine to form a double-strand.
12. the number of times a specific fragment is sequenced in a given experiment
13. a thousand of this in a milligram
15. a process used to break down long sections of DNA into shorter sections
16. the volume of a gram of water at room temperature
17. the process of separating nucleic acids from a biological sample
18. a short, single-stranded nucleic acid that provides a necessary starting point for nucleic acid synthesis

1. a process used to terminate cellular activity and preserve morphology for microscopy or flow cytometry
2. a sequencing platform from Oxford that uses electrical conductivity to detect nucleic acid sequences
6. an enzyme that combines two DNA fragments
7. used to precisely aspirate or dispense small volumes of liquid
8. the amount of mass per unit of volume
10. used in nucleic acid extraction or cleanup by binding and releasing DNA under certain conditions
11. a chemical compound that absorbs light energy to prevent fluorescence
14. a protein that synthesizes or breaks down nucleic acids