
I'm assuming you are a researcher in chemistry, physics, mathematics, or unrelated study to medical/biology at university or industry. Or you are a student at high school or college. You have no experience to do medical/biological research so far. If you include these experiments in your research, can you imagine what results will bring to you? You may be able to find new discoveries with these new data. But you don't know how to start them. What will you do?
Here, I'm going to give a lecture for setting up new biological experiments. It is easier to learn these experimental techniques than to remember chemical reaction equations or to learn program codes! You can master them soon with LESS efforts. You will be able to know about how equipment and reagents you need, what is the latest technique, and what if experiments are failed. If you already contacted other biological researchers for your work, that's good for you to read this as well. You can talk to the experts without any misunderstanding.

In order to start your biological experiments, you need to choose materials for your project. For example, some insects around you, fishes available at grocery stores, or molds on breads in your fridge.
However, I recommend that you use materials which biologists generally use. The reason is that there are many equipment and reagents available for researching them and I can answer all your questions about these subjects.
Generally, many experts use cells from animals or plants, DNA obtained from these cells, animals (mouse, rat, rabbit, dog, or pig etc), or organs got from them, a part of human organs, or human blood for the study.
Next time, I'm going to write the most improtant and easiest technique of all experiments, cell culturing. This is common procedure in such researches as brain, cancer, stem cell, and plant area. You might as well get new weapon as get this technique.

ぼくは大学4年生の研究室では食品加工、大学院では物理化学・計算化学の研究をしていました。生物の研究はそれまで一切なし。初めての実験は、学生が終わって最初の就職した免疫学の研究室で。初めてやったねずみの解剖、そこにはちゃんと胃とか小腸らがあった。教科書通りにきれいに臓器が並んでた。なんか感動した。そんな経験を基に話を進めます。
じゃ、医学・生物学の実験をするに当たって、何から始めればよいのか。最初に研究材料(動物・植物)を決めましょう。その辺にいる虫でもいいし、スーパーで売っている魚でもいいし、冷蔵庫に入ったパンに生えてるカビを取ってするので構いません。
ただ、生物学研究者が一般的によく使う生き物で実験を行うほうが良い。というのも、その生き物を調べるための機械や試薬がすでにたくさんあるし、何かわからないことが出てくればぼくらがお答えすることができるからです。
材料としてよく使われているのは、ねずみとかの動物・植物細胞、それらから採取したDNA(遺伝子)、動物(ねずみ、モルモット、うさぎ)、それらの臓器、ヒトの臓器の一部、ヒトの血液など。
それらを使うことを前提に、早速準備を始めましょう。まずは、実験のもっとも基本かつ簡単な細胞培養から始めてみましょう。脳科学、がん研究、幹細胞研究、生化学など、多くの分野に共通するテクニックです。
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