Resources and services
The MRC funds a wide range of practical resources to help our scientists in their work.
- Instruct – Integrating European Infrastructure for Structural Biology
- Instruct is the dynamic hub of structural biology; integrating the infrastructure of expertise, technology platforms and education to further the frontiers of science
- CGAT (Computational Genomics Analysis and Training)
- CGAT is a training and analysis programme for next-generation sequencing data. It is hosted within the MRC Functional Genomics Unit at Oxford University
- Clinical trials tool kit
- One-stop online information resource for researchers carrying out UK publicly funded clinical trials
- General practice research database
- The MRC license allows the UK research community free access to this database of primary care records – the largest of its kind in the world
- Health and Safety
- The MRC has a comprehensive Health and Safety programme
- High Throughput Sequencing Hubs
- Facilitating access to cutting-edge Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) equipment and dedicated technical and bioinformatics expertise to allow biomedical and clinical researchers to fully realise the potential of these approaches
- MRC Technology
- The MRC owns the intellectual property rights on discoveries made by scientists employed in our units and institutes. We commercialise these findings by licensing them to industry through MRC Technology, our affiliated technology transfer company
- MRC/Wellcome Human developmental biology resource
- Collection of human tissue available to developmental biologists on application
- The Mary Lyon Centre
- State of the art facility providing mouse mutagenesis, characterisation and breeding services
- The Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH)
- This new research complex will provide facilities for both life and physical scientists to undertake new and cutting edge scientific research
- UK Brain Banks network
- The UK Brain Banks network will provide brain tissue to scientists and clinicians to undertake cutting edge research into any aspect of the neurosciences.
- UK DNA banking network
- This DNA sample bank available for use by the scientific community to help identify genetic risk factors for diseases of major public importance
- UK Stem cell bank
- Ethically approved, quality-controlled stem cell lines for use in approved medical research and therapeutic application