£10.00

Will buy 500 microfuge tubes where reactions in the laboratory take place.

 

£125.00

Will buy one pipette for measuring exact amounts of solutions during experiments.

 

£500.00

Will buy a transilluminator, essential for scientists to study DNA during experiments.

 

£4,000

Will buy a specialist incubator that is vital for growing cells within the laboratory.

 

£13,000

Could pay for a one-day workshop for a group of breast care nurses to encourage them to make local improvements to breast cancer services

 

£25,000

Could pay for 5,000 women’s blood samples to be processed as part of the Breakthrough Generations Study, a unique survey dedicated to researching the causes of breast cancer

 

£32,000

Could buy enough specialist chemicals and essential equipment to enable a scientist at the Breakthrough Research Centre to carry out their research for one year.