Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Equipment
Laboratories with safety level S-2 and S-3 with double-door system for microbiological, molecular biological and cell biological research as well as radionuclide laboratory of safety level S2 for use with open radioactive substances
- aerosol exposition system VITROCELL® Cloud (air-liquid-interface model, e. g. lung barrier
- TER impedance measuring system (cellZscope®, Ussing chamber®) for transport studies and barrier function analysis of liquid-liquid-interfaces
- Franz cell system® (air-liquid-interface model, e. g. skin barrier)
- flow cytometer including sorting unit (FACS)
- spectral photometer for absorption, fluorescence and luminescence measurements of microtitre plates
- transmitted light microscopes and reflected light microscopes with phase and differential interference contrast, fluorescence unit, manipulation unit and incubation hood, sample stage variable in the z-axes for the 3D display of biological samples
- Leica-TCS-SP8-X confocal microscope equipped with white-light laser and continuous wave laser with a wavelength of 405 nm (white-light-CLSM)
- field-flow-fractionation system (AF2000 MultiFlow FFF) with UV and MALS detector
- high-performance liquids chromatograph (HPLC)
- Zeta Sizer Nano
- NanoSight – Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis
- gel electrophoresis units for DNA, RNA and proteins (with documentation units)
- Western Blot unit
- real-time PCR cycler
- cryo microtome
- micro-, cooling and ultracentrifuges
- fluid scintillation counter model 2919 TR