CENTER OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY

Main activities:

Nanoparticles biofunctionalization.

Evaluation of the toxicity of nanoparticles in cell cultures.

Culture of selective cell for diagnostic and therapy with gold nanoparticles.

Basis equipments:

Four high speed cooling centrifuges: 3K15 (3 rotors) and 3K18 (4 rotors), Sigma, Germany

Six table Centrifuges: 1-13 and 1-15, Sigma, Hettich, Germany

Five thermocyclers: MJ Research, USA; Eppendorf (two), Germany; Techne, Great Britain; Corbett Research, Australia

Electroporator Eppendorf, Germany

M301 UV-Vis monobeam spectrophotometer, CamSpec, Great Britain

Jasco V-530 double beam spectrophotometer with temperature regulation, Jasco, Japan

Four protein electrophoresis installations, Consort, Belgium

Two P901pH-meters, Consort, Belgium

Three ultra low freezers: 70 and 500 liters, Sanyo, Japan; 100 liters, Snijders Scientific, Netherlands

Two analytic balances, Scaltec, Germany

Three microbiological incubators, Memmert, Germany

Three shaking water baths, Memmert, Germany

Microbiological shaking incubator, Certomat BS-T, Sartorius, Germany

Two Genetic Analyzers: ABI Prism 310, Applied Biosystems, USA; CEQ™ 8800, Beckman Coulter Inc., USA

HPLC Installation, Jasco, Japan

TE2000S NIKON Eclipse reversed microscope, Nikon, Japan

Stereomicroscope NIKON SMZ-800, imaging capture system and software NIS-Elements Basic Research