Laboratory equipment

Abstract

The necessary pieces of equipment required for setting up a professional tissue culture laboratory are listed below. For work on a small scale, simpler equipment can be used and for this the items marked with an asterisk (*) are not absolutely necessary. For example: washing up can be done by hand rather than with a washing-up machine, mixers are only really necessary if large quantities of media are required, distilled water can in some cases be replaced by de-ionized water, a domestic pressure cooker may be used instead of an autoclave. Only large scale laboratories have stores necessary for glassware, nutrient media etc.