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The Dry lab part of the AMCC facilities houses the lab's computers work
stations on which the AMCC staff accessions the samples in the database.
Currently, the AMCC has 5 work stations and 2 laptops.
One of the dry lab work station
Hard at work on one of the AMCC dry lab workstation
The AMCC also has the capacities to accession specimen in the database
in any room of the facilities through Airport technology on Macintosh
iBooks. Not only does this allow the staff to accession the specimen nearer
the vat room, it also allows for easy, fast and reliable identification of
samples pulled out of the vat through scanning their barcode while still
standing near the vat, thus preventing any transcription or reading
errors.
Roaming with the iBook
Scanning barcoded vials
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The Bio-Safety Cabinet
The AMCC owns 2 bio-safety cabinets making the facilities a bio-safety
II lab. Although the AMCC does not expect having to deal with any dangerous
material, any wild animal tissues entering the lab could potentially be
more or less infectious. Working on them in the bio-safety cabinets allows
protection of both the AMCC curatorial assistants as well as protection of
contamination at the sample level.
Bio-safety cabinet
Working in the bio-safety cabinet
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