Bio-measurement capabilities
Our bio-measurement services can be used to analyse consumer products, food and clinical samples for the detection, identification and quantitative measurements of trace level nucleic acids and cell response, enumeration and characterisation. See our full list of bio-measurement capabilities and instrumentation here.
Molecular biology capabilities
- Cat II biohazard laboratory facility
- Nucleic acid analysis (DNA, RNA, epigenetics): Various qPCR (Applied Biosystems, Bio-Rad) and dPCR (Stilla, Fluidigm, Bio-Rad) platforms
- Sequencing: NGS (Illumina, Oxford Nanopore Technologies) and ABI/Hitachi
- Precision medicine, infectious disease, cell/gene therapies, engineering biology
- Genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, metagenomics and single-cell analysis
- Food: GMO (NRL)
- Reference measurements using dPCR (pure DNA solution)
- Trace analysis down to a few copies/µL
Cell biology capabilities
- Laser microsection (Zeis) and 3D confocal microscopy (Nikon)
- Cryostat (sectioning frozen tissues)
- Flow cytometry (Becton Dickenson – cell sorter, counter and analyser
- Cell morphology, viability, authentication and marker expression
- Toxicity assessment
- “Potency” bioassay
Immuno-assays capabilities
- MSD-Sector Imager 6000
- ELISA
- From small molecules to proteins – down to ppt levels
- Biological samples
- Formulation and consumer products
- Sport science
- Cortisol testing
