The department s intranet site offers tips for science writers and information for investigators writing grant proposals, including boilerplate text and samples of funded proposals that can be used as models. Staff members are available for workshops on many aspects of the writing process, including scientific style and syntax. The Scientific Imaging Shared Resources provides expertise in scanning and transmission electron microscopy and laser-based light microscopy. Services include the ultrastructural analysis of molecules, cells and tissues and subcellular labelization of fluorescently labeled or reporter-tagged molecules. The facility is equipped with two electron microscopes and a confocal laser scanning microscope.
Plans call for the addition of two-photon excitation and force microscopy technologies.
Technology Licensing Technology Licensing promotes the commercial development of inventions made by St. Jude researchers through patents and licenses. This activity ensures the widespread dissemination of these inventions to researchers and clinicians all over the world, thus benefiting the maximum number of patients. MHC tetramers provide a tool for measurement of a scalar quantity, the frequency of an antigen-specific T cell population. MHC tetramers are reagents used for direct ex vivo analysis of the frequency and phenotypes of antigen-specific T cells by flow cytometry. For more information, see Tetramer Facility .