The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 11,300 lives and starkly revealed the lack of effective options for treating or preventing the disease. Progress has been made on developing vaccines, but there is still a need for antiviral therapies to protect health care workers and local populations in the event of future outbreaks.

The Crystallography Core has acquired the TTP Labtech’s Dragonfly, a new, fast liquid handling system with disposable positive-displacement pipette tips that can handle any liquid-type independent of viscosity with no cross-contamination.

Established by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Diabetes Research Center, the Metabolic Phenotyping Coreoffers an expanding repertoire of services for measuring metabolic output in cells and animals.

The new STED system attains resolution below the diffraction limit of regular fluorescence microscopy by using using a depletion laser to shrink the fluorescing area of a specimen.