Description
The specific activities of the biomedical scientist can differ in various parts of the world and vary with the level of education. Generally speaking, biomedical scientists conduct research in a laboratory setting, using living organisms as models to conduct experiments. These can include cultured human or animal cells grown outside of the whole organism, small animals such as flies, worms, fish, mice, and rats, or, rarely, larger animals and primates. Biomedical scientists may also work directly with human tissue specimens to perform experiments as well as participate in clinical research.
Biomedical scientists employ a variety of techniques in order to carry out laboratory experiments. These include:
- Molecular and biochemical techniques
- Electrophoresis and blotting
- Immunostaining
- Chromatography
- Mass spectrometry
- PCR and sequencing
- Microarrays
- Imaging technologies
- Light, fluorescence, and electron microscopy
- MRI
- PET
- X-ray
- Genetic engineering/modification
- Transfection
- Viral transduction
- Transgenic model organisms
- Electrophysiology techniques
- Patch clamp
- EEG, EKG, ERG
- In silico techniques
- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
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