CABI manages a collection of 30,000 living strains including the UK National Collection of Fungus Cultures. This collection contains over 6,000 species isolated from environmental and agricultural systems, making it one of the most significant in the world. Our range of organisms, collected from 142 countries, consists of filamentous fungi, yeasts and plant pathogenic bacteria. Strains are publically available for research, development and commercial use and are authenticated through our...

The Cambridge Blood and Stem Cell Biobank (CBSB) was established in 2009 as a research resource providing normal and diseased blood and blood related products. CBSB supports multiple research programs, and a number of clinical trials in the UK, and is funded by the Cambridge Cancer Centre, the Cambridge MRC/Wellcome Trust Stem Cell Institute, various clinical trial funders and cost recovery. CBSB is designed to predict and respond to research needs, including prospective sample and data...

The CIMR Flow Cytometry Core Facility is located in the Keith Peters Building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It provides flow cytometric services to scientists of CIMR, the Hutchison/ MRC Centre and the Clinical School but is also open to external user.
It operates eight flow analysers and three cell sorters.

We provide NMR services for researchers within the Chemistry Department, researchers in other departments, researchers in other institutions and external companies. We aim to provide access to world leading facilities and expertise. NMR provides vital structural information to researchers and enables world leading innovation.

CSD3 is a multi-institution service underpinned by an innovative, petascale, data-centric HPC platform, designed specifically to drive data-intensive simulation and high-performance data analysis. The new service constitutes a major addition to the UK national e-infrastructure, which will enable large scale simulation and next generation data analytics capability for researchers across a broad range of disciplines. The CSD3 platform has been co-designed with DELL EMC, Intel and NVIDIA. A non...

The Cambridge Single Cell Analysis Clinical Core Facility is a regional and national hub for single cell analysis for biomedical research set up in 2016 with capital funding from the MRC. It is situated within the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust with the Babraham Institute, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, European Bioinformatics Institute, the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology and major pharma and biotech companies as strategic partners, building on the...

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers. Since its foundation, however, the Botanic Garden has also provided a beautiful place for everybody to enjoy and benefit from - a series of wonderful landscapes through which to discover the drama of plant diversity...

The Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE), part of the Department of Plant Sciences, is an internationally significant collection of over 1.1 million dried, pressed, and mounted plant specimens. Dating back at least as far as 1703, specimens from around the world have been added to the collection as a result of purchases, gifts, exchanges and benefactions.

The collection is particularly historically and taxonomically important, with one of the best collections of British material in the...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship.

Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

CMDL provides detailed molecular genetic profiling of tumours working under Good Clinical and Laboratory Practice (GCLP) and ISO 15189:2012 guidelines. This accurate, sensitive, high-throughput genomic assay allows rapid and cost-effective molecular diagnostic service to profile oncogenic DNA alterations in clinical solid tumour samples. A single test to detect a large range of events, saving time, money and precious tissue material. Working together with data scientist and software developers...