DE-INBRE Core Facilities

BMAP houses a tissue biorepository and a wet lab specializing in molecular biology instrumentation and methodologies.  BMAP offers clinical trial support as well as basic specimen processing.

Services offered include: serum and plasma isolation, mononuclear cell isolation,  liquid nitrogen flash freezing, and cell culture of specimens, nucleic acid extraction and QC, specimen identification and profiling, Real-Time qPCR and gene expression analysis, CNV detection and digital PCR, and DNA Sanger sequencing. 

The BioImaging Center houses state-of-the-art microscopy instrumentation, including transmission and scanning electron, atomic force, and advanced light microscopy.

The BioImaging Center contains a breadth of equipment enabling us to acquire information from the millimeter to nanometer scales.  Whether you want to look at whole organisms, cells, organelles, or individual proteins, we’ll be able to accommodate your research needs.

The BERD Core offers consultative services including epidemiology, biostatistics, research design, data management, and bio- and medical informatics. 

Services offered include: assistance with statistics analysis and advanced statistical methodologies.

CVRC offers a variety of services to assist with cardiovascular research goals. 

Services offered include: custom vascular studies, echocardiography, 24-hour blood pressure, monitoring Standard and Doppler Carotid ultrasound.  Personnel support includes ultrasound expertise, cell culture support, a research nurse, and support for graded exercise testing.

The Cell Science Core (CSC) assists researchers in flow cytometry, cell sorting, and other cell sciences. The core provides access to a variety of state-of-the-art technology and technical expertise to researchers. 

Services offered include: flow cytometry, cell culture, 2-D electrophoresis, 2-D DIGE, LC-MS/MS, and HPLC.
 

CCBI offers a state-of-the-art research facility houses the 1st research fMRI scanner in the state of Delaware—with the capability to map brain activity, as well as provide remarkably detailed images of muscles, discs, bones and organs. 

Services offered include: functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for humans, with two 3T scanners for humans and large animals, and a 9.4T scanner for samples and small animals.  Additionally,  simultaneous MRI with EEG or TMS can be performed. 

The Custom Synthesis Lab offers many services including: synthetic chemistry services, broadly defined, mainly to non-specialists with limited access to organic chemistry facilities.

The Custom Synthesis Lab offers many services including: synthetic chemistry services, broadly defined, mainly to non-specialists with limited access to organic chemistry facilities.

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The DCMR core offers a wide range of services and expertise in support of furthering musculoskeletal research.

Services offered include: mechanical testing and measurements, multimodal animal imaging, histology, and preclinical experimentation/lab and animal medicine.

The Flow Cytometry Core offers a full service flow cytometry and cell sorting facility. 

Services offered include: Immunophenotyping, DNA content analysis, veterinary hematology, sample processing, figure preparation, data analysis, consultation, assay design, cell culture, and cell sorting

The HTE Center offers compound library synthesis, reaction development, and collection of data sets for statistical model development.

Services offered include organic reactions in parallel format for 24- and 96-well microscale experiment screening to support rapid identification of catalysts for new reactions and optimization of reaction conditions.

The LSRF provides housing for research rodents and technical expertise is available to train research staff or conduct experimental procedures.

The LSRF provides housing for research rodents and technical expertise is available to train research staff or conduct experimental procedures.

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Training, state-of-the-art equipment, and expertise for mass spectrometry and proteomics.

Services include a wide variety of instruments using EI, CI, FD, ESI, APCI and LIFDI for analyses in GC-MS, LC-MS, MS-MS modes.

The OSCAR Imaging Facility is a multi-user core facility that offers state-of-the-art equipment for imaging, microscopy, spectroscopy, and image analysis.

Services offered include imaging, microscopy, spectroscopy, and image analysis including: confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, light microscopy, sample prep. 

The PGL Project offers consultation/experiment design, library preparation, next generation sequencing, and downstream data analysis. 

Services currently offered include: RNA, DNA, and Targeted Panel library prep, Illumina BeadArrays, sequencing, bioinformatics, nucleic acid extraction and 10x single cell applications.