The equipment includes constant-temperature rooms, isotope rooms and counting equipment, darkrooms, analytical and preparative ultracentrifuges, spectrophotometric, electrophoretic, and chromatographic instruments, two transmission electron microscopes, one scanning electron microscope, various kinds of electronic equipment, chambers for plant growth, and laboratories for cell and tissue culture studies. Service facilities, each staffed by experienced personnel, include an instrument-making shop, centers for histology and photography, extensive animal quarters, and a core facility for the synthesis and analysis of proteins and nucleic acids. The department has a working library, adequate for the present fields of research. About 45 periodicals are received regularly. The libraries of Johns Hopkins University, within easy walking distance, are open to staff, fellows, and associates of the department.
Plans are underway to construct a new facility for the department on the university campus.
The department enjoys cooperative working arrangements with the Departments of Biology and Biophysics of the Johns Hopkins University and a number of departments of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Hygiene and Public Health. There is interchange of students, courses, and research facilities. Developmental biologists of the Hopkins Department of Biology join Carnegie faculty members in the training of graduate and postgraduate students at the research and seminar level. This unique arrangement brings together on one campus a large group of active investigators and helps make Baltimore a world center for developmental studies.