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Provide qualified investigators with the newest and most advanced technologies and techniques created, developed, and disseminated by the core scientists at the centers.
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Offer qualified clinical investigators specialized environments with the infrastructure necessary to conduct sophisticated patient-oriented research.
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Serve as a resource for qualified researchers to obtain adequate quantities of clinical-grade vectors for human gene transfer protocols. |
Provides a wide variety of human tissues and organs - both diseased and normal - to qualified researchers for laboratory studies. |
Isolate and distributes pancreatic islets to clinical investigators for transplantation into type 1 diabetic patients enrolled in approved clinical protocols. |
Offer qualified biomedical researchers access to nonhuman primates. Also provide nonhuman primate cells, tissues, organs, and biological fluids. |
Distribute high-quality, well-characterized inbred, hybrid, and mutant rodents to qualified investigators. Also provides frozen embryos and sperm from genetically defined strains of laboratory mice and rats, as well as other rodent resources. |
Provides a central repository for fish, materials, and services to the biomedical research community. |
Models and stocks provided to qualified investigators: Drosophila; Caenorhabditis elegans; Aplysia californica; cephalopod mollusks; and macroarrays containing genomic and cDNA libraries from the sea urchin. |
Available to qualified investigators: microbes, cell cultures and DNA materials of more than 6,000 species and 1,500 genera; large-scale cell culture services for basic research; nonhuman embryonic stem cells; and genetically marked S. cerevisiae stocks. |
Available to qualified investigators: database describing E. coli genes and all known enzymes and pathways of E. coli metablism; atlas of C. elegans anatomy; guidelines; on laboratory animal care and use; publications on nonhuman primates; clearinghouse on nonhuman primate research; resources on issues related to laboratory animal care and welfare. |
Provided to qualified investigators: trait analysis of novel mouse inbred strains; genetic marker analysis of nonhuman primates; and referral for animal models of human genetic disease. |
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