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The facility houses state of the art and legacy equipment including four confocal microscopes, 3D Palm super-resolution, an environmental SEM, a complete set of tissue sectioning instruments, a gene gun, a fluidics robot, fluorescence microscopes, a luminescence dark box, a macro imager and 3D image analysis software. All training is free of charge. All resources can be booked online by the hour, with expert assistance available at no extra charge during business hours.
CNAS Science News
October 01, 2025
Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.
September 26, 2025
New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries
UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe
September 25, 2025
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age
How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.
September 24, 2025
How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures.