Life Sciences


Animal Imaging
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Animal Imaging

This facility conducts research using equipment capable of fluorescence and luminescence imaging independent of or concurrent with CT imaging.

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Animal Models
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

Animal Models

Provides transgenic, gene targeting, and other services to the research community

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  • Life Sciences 
  • Manufacturing / Engineering / Materials 

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Provide analytical and high resolution scanning probed based microscopy, including Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) related techniques as well as force measurements.

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  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Cell Culture

Two cell culture facilities for both biological and bio-engineering approaches. Biosafety cabinets, incubators and general wet lab supplies.

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Pillars for Energy! Nanostructured Carbon Pillars: This 3-Dimensional nanostructured hierarchical network in carbon is the ultimate route to efficient energy storage! Imaged at the cross-sectional site of a nano-patterned film using Scanning Electron Microscope. What you see are the focussed and out-of-focus pillars at a micron scale, which creates an amazing electronic graph! Sravya Nuguri Polymer Science and Engineering Department, College of Natural Sciences IALS-UMass Core Facilities
  • Life Sciences 
  • Manufacturing / Engineering / Materials 

Electron Microscopy

Transmission (TEM) and Scanning (SEM) Electron Microscopes as well as related sample preparation equipment..

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Flow Cytometry
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Flow Cytometry

Enables researchers to image structures ranging from single molecules to whole model organisms and performs microscope-based high-throughput screens.

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Histology–Tissue Resources
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Histology–Tissue Resources

Histological services such as processing and paraffin embedding tissues, sectioning fixed or frozen tissues and immunohistochemical analysis. HistoSpring Tissue Registry provides access to tissue/cells from human breast and ovarian patients.

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IALS Clinical Testing Center
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

IALS Clinical Testing Center

Utilizing the ‘gold standard’ SARS-C0V-2 assay – involving RNA extraction/qPCR, to ensure the lowest possible false positive/false negative results.

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  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Light Microscopy Facility

Nine different Nikon microscopes available that enable a full range of light microscopy methods and applications. Expert support offered for acquisition and analysis of data.

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NMR
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

NMR

Elucidates structure, conformation, dynamics and interactions between the molecules

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Sleep Monitoring Lab
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

Sleep Monitoring Lab

Equipped with EEG systems for recording sleep physiology (sleep staging). A central control room will allow for on-line observation and monitoring of sleep in populations from infants to the elderly.

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Small Molecule Screening
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Small Molecule Screening

The 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 of interest.

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