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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 24,2024. Core that provides services for DNA sequencing and oligonucleotide synthesis, as well as support for projects that require research laboratory automation, such as siRNA screens and transcript abundance profiling. It also offers experimental design and advice for automation and high throughput screening of siRNA collections based on the Ambion siRNA collection.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which assists investigators to quantify and phenotypically characterize cell populations that contribute to the metabolic, immunologic and developmental programs of diabetes and its complications; and to purify populations of cells of relevance to diabetes and its complications.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core makes available to Diabetes Research Center investigators variety of high quality radio-immunoassay, ELISA, and other analytical methods, and facilitates access of DRC investigators to measurement of small molecules by targeted and untargeted metabolomics/lipidomics with the Irving Institute Biomarkers Core. TBAC also provides consultations and services for in vivo methods to measure insulin secretion and sensitivity.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which assists with the in vivo assessment of glucose and fatty acid metabolism, insulin sensitivity and energy homeostasis in mice and rats. It provides tools to understand the behavior and physiology mediating the relationships among diabetes, nutrient sensing, obesity and diabetic cardiovascular complications in rodents.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Research center which provides research support for investigators pursuing research on diabetes and metabolic disorders.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 23,2024.Transgenic core which generates transgenic and gene knockout mouse models relevant to obesity, diabetes and nutrition research. It also provides consultation on all aspects of making transgenic and gene knockout mice.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 23,2024.Core which provides islets to the local diabetes research community in the Boston area. They collaborate with researchers nationally to provide nonhuman primate (NHP) islets for research.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Consortium of laboratory-based and clinical investigators who research etiology, pathogenesis, treatment and cure of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and their associated microvascular and atherosclerotic complications.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which uses stable isotope flux and metabolite profiling to help formulate and test hypotheses about the metabolic consequences of various changes in gene expression and protein function, in order to guide further integrative systems biology analyses of the underlying mechanisms in diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetic complications.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Research center that facilitates the research of diabetes and related studies in obesity, metabolism and endocrinology

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Services provided include tissue preparation, embedding and sectioning for electron microscopy, use of electron microscope and photography of thin sections, immunogold staining for electron microscopy, preparation and incubation of samples (cells and tissues) for immunofluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy and digital imaging.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core services include consultation, technical support and training and mentoring in clinical and translational research methods that are specifically applicable to diabetes, its complications and related metabolic disorders. Personel provides expertise in first-in-human and mechanistic studies in integrative physiology, in clinical trials of diabetes and obesity, and in application of new technologies.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core provides information and tools for Einstein and Montefiore investigators from initial study planning stage through analysis and data output. Facility services include: mass spectrometry analysis, including stable isotopes, as well as research-grade determination of lipids, and metabolic markers for human subjects and animal model projects; High-throughput robotics for semi-automated high-quality sample preparation and analysis by immunoassay and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS); Support for novel developmental projects featuring applications of LC/MS and two-site bead-based assays; Research quality analysis of metabolites for human and animal samples using Olympus AU400 autoanalyzer; Advanced training in analytical chemistry.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which provides methodologies, technology and infrastructure to support investigators in the use of human islets for research studies for the Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center. It isolates and prepares human and rodent islets/beta cells and cell lines for investigator-initiated research and generates specific viral vectors (adenovirus and lentivirus) for gene delivery of cDNAs and shRNAs of interest to beta cells and other islet cell types.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Program that estimates the historical effective population size of a homogenous population. The input for the IBDNe program is the set of identity-by-descent (IBD) segments detected by the IBDseq program.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous

Gene database for Japonica rice. RiceGE is associated with SIGnAL at the Salk Institute.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous

Web-based annotation tool for plant chloroplasts and animal mitochondrial genomes. DOGMA allows the use of BLAST searches against a custom database, and conservation of basepairing in the secondary structure of animal mitochondrial tRNAs to identify and annotate genes.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous

Graphical user interface for multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. SeaView also generates phylogenetic trees.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous

Conversion software developed by Illumina that both demultiplexes data and converts BCL files generated by Illumina sequencing systems to standard FASTQ file formats for downstream analysis.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software toolkit for the processing of ancient and modern HTS data. PALEOMIX also aids in metagenomic analysis of the extracts from the HTS processing.

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• 10 years ago - by Anonymous