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Biological Characterization

Four (4) Baker SterilGARD II Biosafety cabinetsLaminar flow hoods are available for tissue culture and handling to ensure optimal sterility in all cultures and are equipped with gas and vacuum lines. These hoods are BSL 2 certified. 

Thermocycler and Roche Lightcycler 480This instrument is used for quantitative PCR analysis. 

Cell culture incubatorsThree  incubators with temperature, CO2 and humidity controls are for standard cell- and tissue-culturing.  One cell culture incubator is adapted to accommodate bioreactor set-up.

Temperature/ humidity stability chamber – The stability chamber has controlled temperature and humidity environments for use in shelf life testing of polymers, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products and packaging. 

Refrigerated tabletop centrifugeThis centrifuge is used for  cell and sample preparation under refrigerated condition.  

TECAN Spark plate readerTECAN Spark plate reader measures the fluorescence or the absorbance of samples in 24-well, 48-well and 96-well formats. This is commonly used for assays including alamar blue and pico green. 

Nexcelom Bioscience Cellometer Auto T4Cellometer is used to count cell numbers automatically

Power Wave Absorbance Plate Reader (Bio-Tech Instruments) – The Power Wave Absorbance Plate Reader (Bio-Tech Instruments) is available for nucleic acid/protein quantification as well as fluorescence/luminescence assays.

Leica CM1850 CryostatThe Leica CM1850 Cryostat is available to make tissue sections for histological staining or immunofluorescent staining.

Horizontal gel electrophoresis apparatusThe Horizontal gel electrophoresis apparatus for DNA and RNA analysis.

BioRad Mini-PROTEAN® electrophoresis and transfer systemThe BioRad Mini-PROTEAN® electrophoresis and transfer system is used for SDS-PAGE and Western Blotting needs.

  


Microscopes

Olympus inverted and reflected light microscopesOlympus inverted and reflected light microscopes are available for monitoring cell viability and culture growth. An imaging system equipped with a digital camera and an adaptor is connected to the inverted microscope and enables histological examination and capturing important cell behaviors on different substrates.

Zeiss Axio Observer D1 inverted epifluorescent microscope – equipped with 4 filters for detecting DAPI, GFP, Rhodamine and Far-red fluorescent samples – Our Zeiss Axio Observer D1 inverted epifluorescent microscope is equipped with 4 filters for detecting DAPI, GFP, Rhodamine and Far-red fluorescent samples. 

Confocal Laser Scanning MicroscopeConfocal microscopy is for high resolution and 3-dimensional imaging of samples.  It is equipped with an environmental chamber for time-lapse imaging.