Shared Research Facilities and Equipment
Many facilities across North Carolina support life sciences research.
The listing covers core laboratory facilities at university and nonprofit research institutions that are open to researchers or collaborators outside of their home institutions.
Representatives of the core facilities listed below have voluntarily submitted their information. Not all institutions list available core lab facilities, but many are in the process of organizing and compiling these resources. As this information becomes available, we'll add those links.
NCBiotech has funded equipment in many core facilities in the state.
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The Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) offers a wide range of confocal and fluorescence microscopes and image analysis resources. We aim to offer affordable and efficient access to standard and advanced imaging instrumentation.
Light microscopy, fluorescence imaging, confocal, multiphoton, live cell imaging, image analysis
- Imaging & Microdissection
The mission of the Histology Research Core Facility is to provide high-quality, cost-effective and timely histological results to researchers in the UNC system and abroad. This includes performance of existing, and development of new methodology for histological processing, sectioning and staining of both plant and animal specimens and all immunohistochemistry procedures. Other services provided: nissl, x-gal, beta gal, sectioning, staining, counterstain, prussian blue, cresyl violet, sudan iv
histology, paraffin, frozen, microtome, cryostat, cryosection, immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, hematoxylin, eosin, H+E, masson's trichrome, oil red o, sirius red, picrosirius red, alcian blue, PAS, von kossa, DAB, fluorescence
- Pathology/Histology
consulting, sample preparation and crystalization, data collection, data analysis, SER-CAT collection
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
Thermo Orbitrap Elite, Waters Q-TOF Premier, Waters Xevo-TQ Triple Quadrupole, Sciex API-3000 Triple Quadrupole
- Other -omics & Analytical
The CALS Center for Electron Microscopy provides scanning and transmission electron microscopy services including associated tissue preparation for the biological sciences. Digital imaging services are also available.
Transmission electron microscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, TEM, SEM, Ultramicrotomy, Critical point drying, Sputter coating, Biological samples, Digital Imaging
- Imaging & Microdissection
surface plasmon resonance (SPR), circular dichroism, analytical ultracentrifugation, bio-layer interferometry (BLI)
- Other -omics & Analytical
The Informatics group of Duke's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), in which the Computational Solutions core is based, operates, manages, and maintains high-performance infrastructure tailor-designed for the computing, networking, and data moving challenges arising from genomic science. This includes a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster (HARDAC) with large parallel file system storage attached, OpenStack and VMware-based compute VM clusters. Our infrastructure is used every day by researchers across schools and departments, as well as by cores within and outside of GCB. We maintain strong cybersecurity to meet the data protection requirements for PHI and other sensitive data.
high-performance computing, bioinformatics, reproducible science, computational workflows, virtual machines
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
Gateway Research Park is a joint venture created by NC A&T State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro to catalyze university research, innovation and economic development.
NanoBiology, Lab rental space
- Nanotechnology
Duke MGC uses state-of-the-art technology to offer a variety of experimental platforms to facilitate genomics research for single-cell omics, DNA genotyping, DNA copy number, and DNA methylation.
Illumina, GWAS, microarray, DNA methylation, DNA copy number, TaqMan genotyping, single-cell, scRNAseq, 10x Genomics, scATACseq, CITE-seq
- Genetics & Genomics
The laboratory provides instrumentation and assistance for multi-parameter flow cytometric analysis and sorting. It is available for use to all NCSU researchers and to those outside the NCSU community and operates as a by appointment, fee for service lab.
Cell Sorting, Flow Cytometry, CytoFLEX, BD LSRII, MoFlo-XDP, AutoMACS, Seahorse XF, LunaII cell counter, Flourochromes, Lasers, BSL2, BSL2+ cell sorting
- Cell/Tissue Culture & Flow Cytometry