Shared Resources

The MCG campus provides a number of shared resources and core laboratories that provide important support to members of The MCG Cancer Center and their collaborators. These resources offer access to state-of-the-art technology and bioinformatics at an affordable cost. Training, consultation and support are also available.

• Flow cytometry: Cells or particles in a liquid suspension stream single-file through a battery of lasers and photo detectors in the flow cytometer. The cytometer captures data about each one simultaneously at the rate of thousands per second. Researchers can use this powerful computer to assess multiple effects of new drugs on cells, and physicians can use it in diagnostics, particularly in immunology for measuring antigen-specific T cells.
• Genomics and Microarray Resource: The identification of genetic events that lead to the development of human cancer is now possible through genomics analysis. The development of high resolution, high throughput microarray platforms is available in the MCG Genomics and Microarray Resource, which offers a nearly unlimited use of differennt array formats from a multitide of different suppliers. Researchers can survey genome-wide DNA copy number abnormalities and expression levels to correlate losses, gains and amplifications in tumor cells with genes that are over- and under-expressed in the same samples.
• MCG Tumor Tissue and Serum Repository: What starts cancer in someone's body? Researchers believe they can trace many answers to the tumors themselves, in a cell's damaged DNA and other molecular events that contribute to malignancy. Established in 2006, the tumor bank's mission is to collect, preserve, annotate and distribute bio-fluids, tissue and bone marrow in an ethical and systematic way. The repository's goal is to match the diversity of cancer incidence in Georgia.
• Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Resource: MCG has recently expanded its biostatistics, bioinformatics and epidemiology capabilities to support and maximize collaboration among researchers from diverse disciplines. It is an investment in the future and the promise of translational research.

List of core laboratories:

• Small Animal Imaging
• Zebrafish
• Proteomics
• Transgenic and Emryonic Stem Cell Mouse Core Laboratories
• Laboratory Animal Services
• Additional Core Laboratories