Facilities & Resources


The Institute is fully equipped with major core facilities such as X-ray, transgenic mouse, DNA sequencing, micro-array, bio-informatics, electron microscope, FACS, animal room, plant growing facilities, zebrafish facility, and fly room. Major equipments of these core facilities include: two RU-300 and one MicroMax007 rotating anode generators; one Raxis-IV and two Raxis-IV++ imaging plate system detectors; two x-stream and one x-stream 2000 cryo systems; two confocal optical mirror systems and one Yale mirror system; Axon microarray scanner GenePix 4000B; Biomicro MAUI
microarray hybridization system; ABI PRISM 3730 DNA Analyzer; BD LSRII Flow Cytometer; Tecnai TM G2 Spirit Transmission Electron Microscope; Electro-physiology Imaging Recording System.

In addition, the Institute is also responsible for two national core facilities: the National Mouse Mutagenesis Program Core Facility and the RNA-interference Service Program, both are supported by the National Science Council.

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