Capabilities

• Development of primary cell lines from animal and human tissues.
• Maintenance of a large number of cell lines.
• Development of sensitive in-vitro cell-based bioassays for recombinant as well as Synthetic Proteins and Peptides.
• Development of second messenger cell based assays.
• Development of receptor binding assays.
• Mammalian expression of Recombinant Proteins.
• Development of methods for induction and differentiation of stem cells to various cell types.
• Development of Direct, Sandwich and Competitive immunoassays.
• Development of immuno-diagnostic kits (anti-protein Abs and anti-HCPs).

Infrastructure

• Modern Tissue Culture and Cell Biology laboratory, well equipped with appropriate instruments and a capacity to maintain over 300 new cell lines.
• All required facilities and instruments for cell culture work.
• Appropriate facility for development of bioassays like Coulter Counter, Osmometer, Luminometer, Fluorometer, Nucleocounter, Fluorescence Microscopes, Inverted Microscopes with Digital Photomicrography System, Aggregometer and 96-well plate Spectrophotometer.
• Facility for mammalian gene expression like electroporator
• ELISA system for characterisation of proteins