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The STBL is located on the second floor of the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory (MERL) building at 418 Panama Mall. The STBL is equipped for cell and tissue culture, biochemical analysis, molecular biology, fluorescence microscopy and mechanical testing.

  • Cell and Tissue Culture: Laminar flow hood, CO2 incubators, tissue culture microscope
  • Steris Century autoclave, lab washer, ice machine, water purification system, liquid nitrogen storage
  • Beckman Coulter Vi-Cell XR Cell Viability Analyzer (shared equipment)
  • Custom incubator-housed oscillatory compression (2) and tension (2) systems for compression of cultured tissue explants and engineered constructs
  • Sorvall Legend RT Plus refrigerated centrifuge
  • Labconco 4.5L Freeze Dry System
  • Biotek Synergy HT multimode (UV/Visible, fluorescence) microplate reader
  • Bio-Rad gel electrophoresis system
  • Perkin-Elmer Tri-Carb 2900TR Liquid Scintillation Counter
  • Applied Biosystems 7500Fast Real Time RT-PCR system
  • Zeiss Axiovert 200 Fluorescence Microscope
  • TA Instruments AR 2000ex Rheometer (torsional mechanical testing)
  • Instron 5848 Microtester (tension/compression mechanical testing)
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