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Molecular and Cellular Biologists

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Automated cell counters)
  • Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Automated DNA sequencing equipment)
  • Automated microscope stages (Automated microscopes)
  • Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Automatic carbon dioxide CO2 incubators)
  • Plate incubators (Bacterial plate incubators)
  • Centrifuge tubes
  • Photo attachments for microscopes (Charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
  • Fume hoods or cupboards (Chemical hoods)
  • Laboratory dishes (Cloning cylinders)
  • General cloning vectors (Cloning kits)
  • Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Computerized axial tomography CAT scanners)
  • Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Cooled benchtop centrifuges)
  • Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cDNA synthesis kits (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA synthesizers)
  • Desktop computers
  • Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Dessicators)
  • Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Dissecting microscopes)
  • Electrophoresis system accessories (Electrophoresis cameras)
  • Eyewashers or eye wash stations (Emergency eye wash stations)
  • Microbiology analyzers (Flow cytometers)
  • Fluorescent microscopes (Fluorescence microscopes)
  • Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorimeters)
  • Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatography equipment)
  • Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis equipment)
  • Transilluminators (Gel imaging apparatus)
  • Laboratory beakers (Glass beakers)
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Gradiant thermocyclers)
  • Dry baths or heating blocks (Heat blocks)
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
  • Inverted microscopes (Inverted binocular microscopes)
  • Binocular light compound microscopes (Laboratory binocular optical microscopes)
  • Chemical or gas sterilizers (Laboratory chemical autoclaves)
  • Floor centrifuges (Laboratory floor centrifuges)
  • General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers (Laboratory freezers)
  • Orbital shakers (Laboratory orbital shakers)
  • Pasteur or transfer pipettes (Laboratory transfer pipettes)
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Water baths (Laboratory water baths)
  • Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow hoods)
  • Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems)
  • Stirring hotplates (Magnetic stirring hot plates)
  • Manual single channel positive displacement pipetters (Manual single channel positive displacement pipettes)
  • Manual single channel repeating pipetters
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Laboratory balances (Microbalances)
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Microplate readers
  • Electronic multichannel pipetters (Multichannel micropipettes)
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes)
  • Hybridization ovens or incubators (Nucleic acid hybridization ovens)
  • Personal computers
  • pH meters (pH analyzers)
  • Electron guns (Phosphorimagers)
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR thermocyclers)
  • Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Robotic fluidics stations)
  • Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
  • Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Scanning laser confocal microscopes)
  • Immunology or serology test kits or supplies (Serological kits)
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Benchtop centrifuges (Tabletop centrifuges)
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermocyclers)
  • Spectrophotometers (Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers)
  • Volumetric pipettes (Variable volume pipettes)
  • Vortex mixers (Vortex rotators)
  • Ultra pure water systems (Water purification systems)
  • Tissue culture incubators (Yeast culture incubators)

Technologies Include:

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • AcaClone pDRAW32
  • Agilent CGH Analytics
  • Agilent Technologies GeneSpring GX
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • Blast Output Browser BOB
  • ClustalW
  • CRI-MAP
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Delila
  • Wolfram Research Mathematica
  • EnzymeX
  • FASTA
  • FASTLINK
  • Gene Recognition and Assembly Internet Link GRAIL
  • Genotyping software
  • Geospiza GeneSifter
  • GraphPad Software GraphPad Prism
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS software
  • Magma
  • Mendel
  • Michigan State University MSU ProFlex
  • Minitab software
  • NetPrimer
  • PHYLIP
  • Primer3 software
  • RasMol
  • Textco BioSoftware Gene Inspector
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Mathsoft Mathcad
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA libraries
  • Data mining software
  • Data mining software
  • Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
  • Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
  • Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word



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