Biomolecular and Assay Core

We provide our services for both academic and industry researchers in Edinburgh and across the UK.

Biomolecular and Assay Core supports and accelerates your research by providing access to state-of-the-art equipment, procedures and expert technical support.

We offer specialist services in:

• Lentiviral vector manipulation, including overexpression and knockdown of gene expression
• Production and packaging of recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors
• Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR)
• DNA and RNA quality and quantitation
• Protein characterisation using mass photometry and biolayer interferometry, including molecular mass determination, interaction analysis and binding kinetics
• Optimization and validation of immunoassays