What your money buys
As I’m sure you can imagine, running a laboratory is very expensive. To run the Everyman Male Cancer Research Centre costs about £2 million a year.
Here is a short list of some of the items that are needed in the laboratories with their approximate costs:
| Fridges (for storing laboratory reagents) | £240 - £500 |
| Electric Pippettes (for measuring and transferring small volumes of liquids) | £350 - £690 |
| Microscopes (for examining samples) | £450 - £1,000 |
| Computers starting at (essential to all labs) | £675 |
| Centrifuges | £1,000 - £1,500 |
| Analytical Balance (measures accurately very small amounts of chemical reagents) | £600-1000 |
| PCR Machine (A machine that heats and cools on a cycle and allows scientists to amplify tiny amounts of DNA, essential for examining genes and gene defects) | £4000 |
| Spectrophotometer (Specialised equipment that measures the concentration of DNA) | £3,500 - £10,500 |
| Incubators (for cell culture) | £3,850 - £4,000 |
| Ariol Wholeslide Scanner (Specialised equipment that allows scientists to examine tumour material rapidly and with a high level of accuracy.) | £125,000 |
