IATA-CSIC Scientific-Technical Services (SCT)

The Scientific-Technical Support Service for CHEMICAL ANALYSIS of food and other materials. It offers services that include the determination of sugars, anions, cations and other analytes with specific equipment (high-performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC), chromatographs, chromatography, chromatographic and other analytes with specific equipment (high-performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC), gas chromatographs with spectrometers and gas chromatographs with mass spectrometer and multipurpose autosampler, elemental analysis of nitrogen. It also has a multimode reader for microplates and a UV cuvette trophotometer UV-Vis-NIR cuvette trophot.

The scientific-technical support service in food SENSORY ANALYSIS It offers Scientific and technical support in food sensory analysis, including: 1. Use of the tasting room with and without a specific computer system, as well as the cost of the participants' service. 2. Use of the tasting room with and without a specific computer system, as well as the cost of the participants' service.

The scientific and technical support service in eukaryotic CELL CULTURE and BIOHAZARD laboratories (NCB2). It offers services that include: 1.- Scientific and technical advice on cell culture assays, 2. use of biological safety cabinets, biological safety incubators and small equipment in the cell culture room. 3. Conservation of vials of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen in the general cryopreservation tank. 4. Automated preparation of DNA and RNA samples.

GENOMICS. The Scientific-Technical Support Service includes techniques for the global study of gene expression. It has real-time PCR equipment, a flow cytometer that analyzes up to 16 markers in each event or cell, a Nanodrop spectrophotometer for quantifying proteins and acids, and a markers in each event or cell, a Nanodrop spectrophotometer for quantifying proteins and nucleic acids, and a spectrophotometer to nucleic acids, and a multiwell plate spectrophotometer that reads absorbance, fluorescence, fluorescence pola-fluorescence, fluorescence polymerization and luminescence. In addition, the service has other support equipment such as a robot for multiwell plate a robot for filling multiwell plates or a vacuum centrifuge for concentrating samples. It also deals with the preparation of gen libraries used in massive NGS sequencing techniques, and collaborates in the analysis of “Big Data”.

The scientific-technical support service in MICROSCOPY IMAGE ANALYSIS of living beings, food and packaging materials. It has an epifluorescence microscope and a macrophotographic equipment for digital image acquisition. It has specialized software processing and analysis of scientific digital images for morphological or signal intensity measurements, counting and signal intensity, counts, and combinations of images in XYZCT dimensions.

The PILOT PLANT is equipped with unique equipment for scientific research and for collaboration in research projects and contracts through the provision of research services to companies or entities. The Scientific and Technical Support Service offers services including: 1. Counseling, 2.Atomization, 3. Sterilization, 4. Sieving, 5.Homogeneization 6.Freeze-drying, 7. Chemical reactions in reactor and 8. Fat extractor.

The BIOTECHNOLOGY Pilot Plant is equipped with unique equipment for scientific research and collaboration in research projects and contracts by means of the provision of services with and research contracts through the provision of services with companies or entities. The Scientific-Technical Support offers services by: 1. Fermenters of various volumes, 2. Bioreactors, 3.Homogenizer, 4. Autoclaves, 5. Safety cabinets, 6. anaerobiosis chambers, 7.Plate reader, among other equipment. SCT_ Biotechnology Pilot Plant

Since 2023 the MATERIALS AND PACKAGING PROCESSING and CHARACTERIZATION UNIT (MATPRO) has been offering scientific-technical services related to the processing, analysis and characterization of the physicochemical properties of materials, mainly those originating from the tical properties of materials, mainly those originating from biomass and/or intended for use in food packaging applications (e.g., food packaging). (polymers and biopolymers).

MATERIALS BIODEGRADABILITY AND COMPOSTABILITY unit (MATBIO) offers scientific and technical services for biodegradation in different biodegradation in different media (soil, compost, aqueous/marine) and compostability (according to EN 13432) of materials of materials, mainly those coming from biomass and/or intended for the replacement of single-use plastics materials.