Tissue Culture Services

Prices effective 7-1-08

1. Thaw cells, plate into 1 x T-25 flask

$21 UMMS/$26 External Academic/$37 External

2. Routine cell line maintenance (2 x T-25 flasks/month)*

$140 per month UMMS/$175 per month External Academic/$245 per month External

*cost of medium not included

3. Cell line expansion

Please call and ask for a quote

Example: Expand 2 x T-25 flasks to 64 x T-25 flasks.

$160 UMMS, including labor, 1 x 500 ml bottle of medium (DMEM, 10ûS), and all other materials.

4. Programmed cryopreservation of cell line

$25 UMMS/$31 External Academic/$44 External

5. Preparation of frozen cell stocks

1-10 vials ($32 UMMS/$40 External Academic/$56 External)

6. Cell storage in liquid nitrogen

1-50 vials ($15 per month UMMS/$19 per month External Academic/$26 per month External)

51-100 vials ($25 per month UMMS/$31 per month External Academic/$44 per month External)

101-150 vials ($30 per month UMMS/$38 per month External Academic/$52 per month External)

7. Purchase cell line (UMMS only)

$40 per vial

8. Monoclonal antibody production from hybridoma

Please call and ask for a quote, high density Cell-Max system available

Labor $40 per hour UMMS/$50 per hour External Academic/$70 per hour External

9. Mycoplasma test (Lonza MycoAlert Test*)

1 sample⁺ $90 UMMS/$115 External Academic/$158 External

Each additional sample add $25 UMMS/$31 External Academic/$44 External

*detects all common mycoplasma species

⁺ includes positive and negative controls

10. Cell transfection and stable clone selection*

$260 UMMS Transfection of 1 construct and isolation of 6 stably transfected clones (neo)

*Please call for a quote on multiple constructs, addtional charge for slow growing cell lines