11. FACILITIES SHARED BY THE TWO INSTITUTES

National Institute for Physiological Sciences and National Institute for Basic Biology are sharing facilities which are innovative for conducting biological researches, but rather expensive to be supported only by one institution.

Section of Electron Microscopy

Fine structures of tissues, cells or macromolecules can be studied using laser scanning microscopy, and both transmission and scanning electron microscopy in this room. We also provide instruments for picture processing of the observed images.

Transmission and scanning electron microscopy (Section of Electron Microscopy)

Instrument Design Room

Custom-designed equipments, which are not commercially available, can be constructed in this room. The machine shop is equipped with various types of machines such as milling machines and drill presses. The electronic shop is equipped with various types of test instruments used for construction and measurement calibration of electronic devices.

Machine shop equipments (Instrument Design Room)

NIBB Center for Analytical Instruments

About 60 kinds of analytical equipments (biological, physical, chemical and optical) are available. The center serves for amino acid analysis, amino acid sequence analysis, chemical syntheses of peptides and mass spectrometric analysis to support researchers in two institutes.

Mass Spectrometry system for biological specimen (NIBB Center for Analytical Instruments)