Resources

Across the Edinburgh BioQuarter we have established technology platforms and resources to advance our basic research questions, and to empower our researchers to accelerate their discovery and innovation efforts.

Learn more about these below.

Edinburgh Metabolic Phenotyping Facility

Cutting-edge expertise and equipment, including glucose clamps, indirect calorimetry, tolerance testing, & non-invasive body composition analysis

Mass Spectrometry Core Facility

Expert bioanalytical research facility for the analysis of clinical and biological samples by mass spectrometry

Confocal and Advanced Light Microscopy

Infrastructure and services for biological optical imaging.

Flow Cytometry Facility

Access to advanced cell sorting instrumentation and flow cytometry analysers, supported by highly trained facility staff.

Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue Biobank

Providing high quality tissue samples and matched medical data to scientific researchers.

ZebraFish Imaging and Screeing Facility

Functional imaging and automated chemical and genetic in vivo screening of zebrafish