Cores Corner

The DNA Services Core has recently negotiated campus-wide discounts from several outside service providers. By pooling the oligos ordered through the online work request form, we can get oligos in tube format for as low as 22 cents a base (or, oligos in plate format the price is as low as 10 cents a base). Visit the DNA Services Core fees page for a list of new prices negotiated with vendors including IDT, Sigma-Aldrich, Biosearch, and Stanford … Read More

OHSU’s Transgenic Mouse Models Core is up and running after relocating to a new laboratory space in the Biomedical Research Building. The new space takes advantage of the mouse pathogen-free barrier inside of the Department of Comparative Medicine. Services provided by the Transgenic Core for both OHSU and external customers include: Generation of transgenic mice, knockout mice, cryopreservation of mouse embryos and the rederivation of contaminated mouse lines. In vitro fertilization and Speed Cryopresevation. Services … Read More

At the Advanced Imaging Research Center, OHSU researchers have access to some of the best magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology in the world. Researchers use these high-powered MRIs to study how the brain works, as well has how it deteriorates with age and disease. Listen to Bill Rooney, Ph.D., as he tells the history of OHSU’s Advanced Imaging Research Center. He’ll take you behind the scenes of OHSU’s 7-tesla MRI, which produces very high-resolution images … Read More

The Flow Cytometry Shared Resource is pleased to announce the expansion of the capacity and capability of the core with the addition of new instruments and upgrades. The resource has added a state-of the-art cell sorter, the Becton Dickinson (BD) InFlux, which is capable of detecting up to eleven fluorescent probes for cell separation and cell analyses. The instrument is equipped with four lasers, including a 561nm green laser for the highly demanded red fluorescent … Read More