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Contract Research Laboratory

Advanced testing and characterisation services for all industries and applications. Accessible, reliable, and high quality results to support your research and development programmes.

State of the art laboratories

Our dedicated labs are purpose built to our specification, providing high throughput and high quality results. 

Experienced applications team

With many decades of combined experience, our technical team will support you at every step to ensure you get the answers you need.

Flexible project management

From single samples to multi-year grant funded projects, our flexible approach adapts to your needs.

A scientist inspecting cells in a fluorescent microscope

Discover our core services

Electron microscopy

Nanometre resolution imaging for the ultimate level of detail. View the internal structure of cells, nanoparticles, electronic devices and more.

A scanning electron microscope image of a fly's eye
Pharmacogenomics

High throughput fast turnaround genetic testing for genotyping and metabolizer status screening.

A sample tube being removed from a tube rack
Nanofabrication and lithography

Rapid prototyping and proof-of-principle devices. Design, development, and scale up of electronic and optical devices and surfaces.

A microfluidics device made using electron beam lithography
Optical and confocal microscopy

Instant widefield characterisation and fluorescence microscopy for targeted imaging in cells and tissues.

A fluorescence microscope image of some cells
Chemical analysis

From contamination identification to structure and purity testing, our analysis services can map the distribution of elements and measure bulk composition with ppm sensitivity.

An EDX map of contamination on a hypodermic needle
Next generation sequencing

Automated workflows for whole genome and transcriptome sequencing, RNA-seq and shotgun metagenomics.

Ion Chef automated library preparation system