The Molecular Biology Services (MBS) at ICVS are focused on serving not only the needs of the University of Minho community as well as other academic and industry communities through a specialized service and counselling regarding the different scope of expertise practiced at ICVS.

Supported by a strong scientific platform, MBS focus in areas like manual and automated nucleic acids extraction, assessment of biomolecules quality and quantification by automated electrophoresis, qPCR (quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction), optimization and implementation of rodent genotyping protocols, namely mice and rats, protein quantification by multiplexing technology and detection of different Mycoplasma species in cell culture.