The School of Applied Sciences is equipped with a research-driven animal cell and tissue culture facility which provides students with the necessary practical skills required for the culturing of animal cells and in vitro maintenance of cancer cells and normal cells. This facility is used to carry out experiments that involve the removal of cells, tissues, or organs from an animal, and their subsequent placement in an artificial environment conducive to growth. This lab focuses on various research activities for deciphering the mechanism of potent drug targets for various types of cancer via utilizing cancer cell lines.
Major types of equipment:
- Air Shower System
- Biosafety Cabinet Level II
- CO2 Incubator
- Inverted and Upright Fluorescent microscope
- Refrigerated centrifuge
- Automated Cell counter
- Microtome
- Deep freezer
- Nanodrop spectrophotometer
- Liquid nitrogen tank
- Western Blotting System
Cell Lines:
A549 (Lung Cancer Cell line)
MCF7 (Breast Cancer Cell Line)
HeLa (Cervical Cancer cell line)
MDA-MB-231 (Triple-negative breast cancer cell line)
MCF-10A (human non-tumorigenic breast epithelial cell line)
