Career - Tissue Culture Technician

Tissue Culture Technicians will clean, sterilise and maintain equipment and facilities and will set up and operate equipment, including microscopes, environmental chambers (incubators) and centrifuges. They will select live material with the desired characteristics and will dissect and test tissues or cells for viruses and other diseases. They will prepare selected tissues or cells for reproduction and also reproductive and growth chemical solutions (medias) suitable for the species to be cloned. They will chemically treat selected tissues or cells to induce genetic mutations and will place tissues or cells in sterile chemical solutions or medias and place on shakers to initiate reproduction or growth. They will place reproduced plant material in sealed sterile containers containing a nutrient gel, then grow under controlled temperature and light conditions, repeating this process until the specimens are of sufficient size. They will grow samples of cloned cells or organisms to maturity and monitor them for desirable or undesirable genetic mutations (genotypes) or characteristics (phenotypes) and will record results by using computers or other methods.

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