What is a Laboratory Incubator?

An Incubator Lab Equipment is a heated, insulated box used to grow and maintain microbiological or cell cultures. The lab incubator microbiological maintains optimal temperature, humidity and gaseous content of the atmosphere inside. Many incubators include a programmable timer which may be set to cycle through different temperatures and humidity levels. The incubators vary in size from table-top units to large systems the size of a cupboard.

There are many different types of lab incubators, including dry bath incubators with single or dual blocks, biological oxygen demand (BOD) units ideal for insect or plant studies, shaking incubators, hybridization ovens, bioreactors, and a wide variety of laboratory test chambers.

What is the purpose of an incubator and where would it be used?

The purpose of a laboratory incubator is to provide a controlled, contaminant-free environment for safe and reliable work with cell and tissue cultures by regulating conditions such as temperature, humidity, and CO2.

Laboratory incubators are essential for the growth and storage of bacterial cultures, cell and tissue culture, biochemical and haematological studies, pharmaceutical work and food analysis.

Can an oven be used as a lab incubator?

Because they both produce heat, ovens and incubators are often mistakenly assumed to be the same thing or attempted to be used for the same function. However, the difference is that an oven produces temperatures typically ranging from 93.3 to 316 degrees Celsius, while an incubator typically ranges from 15.6 to 48.9 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, an oven cannot be used as a lab incubator because most ovens will not have a low enough temperature that is suitable for using as an incubator.

What type of laboratory incubator does HouYuan Medical offer?

To adapt to all your needs, HouYuan offers a wide range of lab incubators for a variety of applications, mold lab incubator, constant temperature humidity laboratory incubator, biochemical incubator and so on. If you would like to know more about our Laboratory incubator, please contact us, we look forward to being of assistance.