The research activity is focused on molecular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression with particular attention to the role of Amyloid-beta (Aβ) in both physiological/pre-clinical conditions and AD pathology.
The Protein Expression laboratory contains all the facilities needed to produce heterologous proteins from E. Coli or appropriately engineered bacteria through the common molecular biology techniques. The growth of bacteria...
The spectroscopy laboratory is dedicated to the biophysical characterization of macromolecules of biological interest. The instrumentation in use, associated with that of the thermodynamic laboratory, allows us to provide structural...
Two Nano calorimeters and a potentiometric-galvanometric station are operating at the IC spectrometry laboratory in Catania:
Automated Microwave Peptide Synthesizer Two microwave-assisted peptide synthesizers (Liberty, CEM) are operating at the IC synthesis laboratory in Catania, capable of satisfying the growing demand for synthetic peptides. Microwave-assisted solid-phase...
Two mass spectrometers are operating at the IC spectrometry laboratory in Catania:
L’Istituto di Cristallografia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e Istituto Superiore di Sanità intendono rafforzare la collaborazione, già esistente sulla base dell’Accordo Quadro, al fine di realizzare iniziative che riguarderanno...
L’Istituto di Cristallografia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e il Dipartimento interateneo di Fisica dell’Università degli studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” intendono collaborare in ambito di ricerca al fine di...
Through Excelsus Structural Solutions, CNR-IC offers effordable and fast access to its X-Ray Imaging Laboratory (XMI-Lab) for the characterization of drug substances and products at the nano-scale (e.g. nanosuspension formulations,...
