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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.

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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.

Functional Genomics Facility
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.

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