Biomarkers

Unilabs York Bioanalytical Solutions is proud to be able to offer a fully validated list of biomarker assays.

The information below details the therapeutic areas where we currently offer validated methods.  The range of equipment and techniques available is constantly being reviewed and includes electrochemiluminescence using the Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) system and Gyrolab.

Therapeutic area

• Allergy panels
• Biomarkers for obesity, diabetes and growth
• Bone markers
• Cardiac markers
• Endocrinology panels – adrenal, thyroid, reproductive, metabolic
• Faecal fat analyses
• Haematology and coagulation analyses
• Inflammatory panels
• Liver enzymes
• Metal analyses
• Tumour markers
• Apoptosis markers
• Tumour proliferation markers
• Leukocyte prototyping
• Safety monitoring of biologicals
• Other biomarkers validated on request

Techniques

• Immuno turbidimetry
• Enzyme enhanced chemiluminescence
• Turbidometric (Coagulametric) and Chromogenic measurements
• HPLC using different detection principles (e.g. UV, fluorescence, electrochemical)
• LC-MS/MS 
• ICP-MS, GC-MS
• Atomic absorption (FAAS, GFAAS)
• Molecular biology techniques including RNA & DNA extraction, standard PCR, Real-Time PCR and genotyping
• ELISA & RIA
• Electrochemiluminescence (MSD)
• Flow cytometry
• Gyrolab