Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

This laboratory is a multi-room facility that contains all the necessary equipment to perform a plethora of assays on human blood and muscle.

Examples include:

• refrigerated centrifuge (2) and micro-centrifuge (2), incubator
• oven
• pH meters
• water baths
• microtiter plate shaker
• a Cahn 35 microbalance in a modified -45°C freezer for weighing muscle and tendon
• general balances
• Savant Speed-Vacs (2)
• autoclave (2)
• freeze-dryer
• Instrument Labs blood gas analyzer
• osmometer
• flame photometer
• spectrophotometer
• fluorometer
• microtome/cryostat
• numerous manual and electric tissue homogenizers
• a reagent-grade water system
• a large assortment of western immunoblotting and electrophoresis equipment
• Alpha Innotech imaging system.