Research Core Facilities |
| Animal Medicine (log-in required) State-of-the-art animal facilities and maintains the highest standards of animal care and veterinary services. |
Bioinformatics Core Facility
Provides help and support in storing, visualizing, and analyzing biological data. |
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Digital Light Microscopy CoreProvides UMass and outside researchers with high-resolution, multi-mode, digital microscopic imaging and image analysis. |
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Flow Cytometry Provides extensive cytometry services for internal and external investigators with state-of-the-art sorting and analyzing services. |
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Machine Shop Specializes in design, manufacture, and repair of biomedical lab equipment |
Morphology Core Facility A DERC (Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center) core facility that is a state-of the-art, fully equipped histology lab. |
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Peptide Core Facility Provides custom peptide synthesis, peptide chromatography, amino acid analysis and peptide conjugation. |
Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Utilizes state-of-the-art methodologies and instrumentation to characterize proteins and perform small molecule analysis. |
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shRNA Library Core Distributes clones from the Open Biosystems human and mouse shRNAmir retroviral libraries to UMMS researchers. |
Small Molecule Screening Facility Assists researchers in developing high-throughput (HT) screening assays, performs HT screens of chemical libraries to identify new small molecules that can be used to probe biological processes. |
Tissue Culture and Enzyme Freezer Supply-_TCEFS Provides a variety of cell culture support services available to all UMMS researchers. Our onsite freezer program supplies restriction enzymes, modifying enzymes, kits for DNA preparation and cleanup and related reagents from seven different vendors. |
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X-Ray Crystallography Facility Provides centralized facilities and resources for conducting research, advanced teaching, and comprehensive data processing. |
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