Enabling Technology Core Resources

Computer resources for biomedical research at Stanford. Membership access to computer hardware; Mac, PC, and UNIX software; consulting; and workshops.

Tools for studying human cognitive neuroscience: how the brain supports perception, cognition, emotion & action, and how brain-behavior relations are disrupted in neurological & psychiatric diseases.

Web-based Database management and storage; scalable and evolving databases; tools for rapid prototyping of data forms; access to secondary and publicly available databases.

Flow Cytometry: three fluorescence detectors to read emission spectra from a variety of dyes, including FITC, PE, CY5, propidium Iodide, and others.

High quality gene expression microarrays: production support and analysis, bioinformatic support.

Provides researchers at Stanford with the ability to run high-throughput chemical, siRNA, cDNA, and high-content screens for the purpose of drug and/or target discovery.

Analysis of clinical samples for a wide variety of immune markers and signs of infectious disease using current bead-based & array technologies, flow cytometry & mass spectrometry.

Applies magnetic resonance (MR) technology to fundamental physiologic & patho-physiologic studies involving animals and humans. Educational opportunities in MR.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, instrumentation & expertise. Primary Solution State spectroscopy of bio-molecules including, but not limited to, studies of polymers, minerals, soils, extracts.

Neuropharmacological & behavioral analyses in rodents. Expertise in design & implementation of behavioral experiments, and data analysis & interpretation.

Services to the Stanford community:
• access to clinical data for research purposes
• research data management solutions
• biospecimen data management
• Informatics software development

High-throughput crystallography and drug screening. Analysis of large proteins, macromolecular complexes, mechanically and radiation sensitive samples, and micron-sized crystals.

Collection, storage, distribution & study of human tissues. Services & products include:
• frozen tissue pickup
• frozen tissue from bank
• H&E stained frozen section
• review of slides

Photography; medical photography; graphic publication electronic imaging & scanning; graphic design & illustration; business cards.