Instrumentation for Iowa State University Nucleic Acid Facility

该奖项提供资金，以帮助购买各种 成员用于生物技术研究的设备 爱荷华州的动物学和生物化学系 大学 设备包括最先进的成像设备 用于检测和分析放射性标记的核酸 酸和蛋白质，染色凝胶密度测定装置， 放射自显影，DNA合成和分离设备 低聚物，用于数据分析的计算机工作站和几个 其他物品 这些设备将被安置在 新的生物技术中心。 生物技术基础研究的进展，包括 分子生物学和细胞生物学在很大程度上依赖于 开发DNA合成仪等仪器， 测序仪，允许什么是耗时和困难的 实验要迅速完成， 努力 新设备现在提高了速度和灵敏度 按订单检测和分析蛋白质和核酸 数量级。 典型地，这种设备被放置在中央 大量调查人员可以使用的地点 谁能从中受益。 正是这样的安排， 该设备将通过此次招标采购。

This award provides funds to aid in the purchase of a variety of equipment items to be used for biotechnology research by members of the zoology and biochemistry departments at Iowa State University. Equipment includes a state of the art imaging device for detection and analysis of radioactively-labelled nucleic acids and proteins, a device for densitometry of stained-gels and autoradiograms, equipment for synthesis and separation of DNA oligomers, a computer workstation for data analysis and several other items. The equipment will be housed in the nucleic acid facility of the new Biotechnology Center. Advances in basic research in Biotechnology, including studies in molecular biology and cell biology, have depended heavily on the development of instrumentation such as DNA synthesizers and sequencers that permit what had been time-consuming and difficult experimentation to be accomplished rapidly and with little effort. New devices have now increased the speed and sensitivity of detection and analysis of proteins and nucleic acids by orders of magnitude. Typically such equipment is placed in a central location where it is available to a large number of investigators who can benefit from its use. Precisely such an arrangement is proposed for the equipment to be purchased through this award.