Oak Crest Services

Micro & Molecular Biology

The Oak Crest Institute of Science provides a wide range of CRO project services in molecular biology, microbiology and cell/tissue cultures.

Our facility is set up to handle agents up to biosafety level 2, which includes animal and human pathogens. We have extensive experience in the handling of human diagnostic specimens, the culturing of bacterial and animal cells and co-culturing microbiomes on epithelial cell lines. These materials can then be analyzed using a wide range of biochemical and molecular biology techniques.

Available methods include:

  • SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting and protein quantification

  • Nucleic acid isolation (Kingfisher)

  • PCR and QPCR

  • bacterial cultures, including fastidious and anaerobic strains

  • animal and human cell and tissue cultures

gel documentation

LI-COR gel imager

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antimicrobial testing

Antibiotic susceptibility test (growth inhibition zones)

PCR

PCR thermocyclers