Alginate beads

We did this I don’t know how many weeks ago, but I’m just gonna post it today since I’ve been busy with my trials and I don’t have time to take my DSLR out for a walk. So all these pictures were actually edited earlier :\

Anyway, alginate beads are actually immobilized enzyme in beads form :D This can provide increased resistance to changes in conditions such as pH or temperature. It also allows enzymes to be held in place throughout the reaction, following which they are easily separated from the products and may be used again - a far more efficient process and so is widely used in industry for enzyme catalysed reactions. (Yea this is from Wikipedia :P)

And these are the photos taken by Raymond’s iPhone 4 :)

Cute lil’ alginate beads :D so nice to play with HEHEHE.

We ended up making sperms LOL. Typical bio students :P It’s actually kinda easy to make the sperms rather than making the alginate beads, cause all you have to do is keep pouring but for alginate beads you need to make it round and nice.

The white sperms on the top right corner are definitely not my products LOL. Mine are nicer and cuter HAHAHAHAHA. (What a weird description LOL.)

Proudly presenting my masterpiece :D That’s not my hand anyway, according to YengYing LOL.

Suck in the bio yesterday, prepared a lot for regulation and control, thought that it’ll come out since it’s the largest chapter. But turned out to have a small part about action potential only. The ultrafiltration and all didn’t come out :( and most of the questions are from past year. Damn it.