Core Facility: Small Animal Imaging/Tumor Biology Facility

Purpose: Imaging of fluorescent/luminescent probes in whole animals

Major Instruments/Services: Xenogen VIS 200 imager; Leica MZ-FLIII/Q-Imaging Fluorescence Imaging System, Animal Imaging, Production of Xenograft Models for Imaging, Gene Silencing and Over-expression in Tumor Cell Lines, and Testing of Cancer Therapeutics

Fee: Yes

Access: Open to academic investigator inside and outside Tufts and to biotech and pharmaceutical companies

Preferred Contact: Gary Sahagian, gary.sahagian@tufts.edu, (617) 636-6748

Campus: Boston

Website: http://www2.healthsci.tufts.edu/saif

Level of Service:

• Level 1: Fee for full-service facility. User only needs to bring a sample, the facility does the rest.
• Level 2: Do-it-yourself facility with full-time technical support.
• Level 3: Do-it-yourself after intensive supervised training. Occasional trouble-shooting help is provided.

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