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| NCTR's physical facilities are located in central Arkansas and include 30
buildings spanning one million square feet of floor space, and housing approximately
$20,000,000 in capital equipment. There are 132 general or special-purpose research
labs; 82 AAALAC-accredited breeding and conventional animal rooms; 23 specialized labs for
pathological processing and evaluation; BioSafety Level 3 (BSL-3) complex containing 10
individual BSL-3 laboratories; a Nonhuman Primate Research Center; a Phototoxicology
Research Center; a MicroPetTM Imaging Facility; a scientific and technical
library; on-site hazardous waste disposal; SPF Barrier; and GLP/GMP-compliant diet
preparation facilities. In addition, an on-site housing unit for visiting scientists
consists of eight two-person units and a commons building. Modern scientific equipment includes molecular biology tools, laser capture microdissection microscopes, flow cytometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, microarray printers, and hardware/software for data visualization and analysis systems (ArrayTrack TM). Microarray Facilities1150 square feet of laboratory space is available in the Center for Functional Genomics for microarray experiments: 300 sq foot of limited-access clean-room for printing microarrays, 150 square feet for processing microarrays following printing, 450 square feet of ozone-controlled wet-bench space to conduct microarray experiments and 250 square feet of limited-access space for isolating RNA. Major equipment contained within the Microarray facilities include:
Research Equipment
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