Support equipment includes shaker incubators, CO 2 incubators, laminar flow hoods, chemical hoods, clean steam, microscopes, autoclaves, cryostorage, and freeze-dryers. The minimum batch capacity is 200 ml. For smaller samples a horn sonicator or a bead mill are used. The lab also has a Millipore Pellicon tangential flow ultra-filtration system. Pilot-scale purifications are performed using a PE Biosystems Autopilot.
Customer provides inoculum.
Cell line retrieval and expansion are extra. Shipping of frozen cell paste on dry ice is also extra.