CRM has high quality in-house facilities for basic research:

• State-of-the art centralised facility for isolation and culture of both mouse and human embryonic stem cells
• Transgenic facility covering provision of mouse ES cells, blastocyst injection, derivation of custom mouse ES cell lines and other embryo manipulations
• Operator-run flow cytometry service (Cytomation MoFlo and Becton-Dickinson FacsCalibur – 6 parameter, 4 colour sorting; Dako-Cytomation – 8 parameter 6 colour sorting)
• State-of-the-art equipment for experimental embryology (mouse and Xenopus)
• Quantitative real-time PCR
• Automated in situ hybridisation
• Histology
• Facilities for the manufacture of solid free-form bioactive devices, for in vivo delivery of cells
• SPF animal facilities

CRM researchers have ready access to the following facilities:

• Sequencing and proteomics facilities
• Fermenters for large scale protein production
• Zebrafish facility
• Clinical research imaging centre
• BHF Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit
• Wellcome Trust Clinical Trials Unit