ANON POST: Modern day clinical lab equipment?

[kutsuwamushi]

My main character is a doctoral researcher at a very well-funded private clinical lab (I don't have a medical specialization for her yet, in part because of the question I have, but it would be something biochemical based) in a contemporary setting. I'm having the hardest time figuring out what kind of equipment would be present (cold rooms? TEM

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[sethg_prime]

You may draw inspiration from one chemist’s catalog of “Things I Won’t Work With”.

[justhuman]

As others have said, it will depend on the research. If they need to monitor human subjects with blood tests, having the kind of equipment used in a hospital lab would be appropriate. I know about two kinds

[whistler_wren]

In addition to specifics mentioned above, don't forget the sheer volume of glassware found in labs. Depending on what they're doing, you have everything from stir rods, beakers, flasks, test tubes, slides and vials to separation funnels, distillation tubes/bulbs/etc., and the huge glass containers they use for stock solutions. Ceramics also break quite nicely for nefarious purposes.

Try wikipedia for a better list of common items as well.

While we're talking about common stuff, think about your lab safety. Any way people can hurt themselves accidentally are ways they can do it on purpose, too. Think "Johnny was a little boy..." for example for a sneakier but suitably horrible way to kill someone.

[thekumquat]

By 'clinical lab' do you mean a path lab in a hospital (deals with clinical samples and analysis), a research lab that may happen to be in the grounds of a hospital, or a lab in a research institute or university that happens to do medical research? I'd assume a clinical lab was one that merely provided support for drug trials in patients so would be fairly basic