Physiological Environment Research Facility
Who We Are
A major limitation to modern day tissue and cell culture is the lack of control of environmental variables (i.e., oxygen, carbon dioxide, humidity, etc.) to mimic exact in vivo conditions. As such, cells are often exposed to atmospheric and non-physiological levels of these surroundings, which ultimately confounds data analysis and interpretation. The Physiological Environment Research Facility works to limit these artifactual environmental variables by the use of tightly-regulated atmospheric conditions (i.e., oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, humidity and temperature) for tissue and cell culture-based experiments.