An estimated 200,000 people undergo bariatric surgery—commonly known as weight-loss surgery—in the United States annually, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Patients undergo a surgical procedure that alters their stomach or intestine to help them lose weight. The long-term outcomes of bariatric surgery, however, are mixed, with some patients regaining weight.

Composed of 86 billion neurons and an array of intricate structures, the human brain is a complex organ that regulates every process within the body. Just as we cannot live without a brain, laboratory scientists cannot conduct research without well-designed infrastructure.

Many people today use touchscreen devices to manage or control various aspects of their lives, such as food deliveries, home lighting, and video entertainment. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), laboratory monkeys are able to learn to use touchscreen technologies in a remarkably similar way. Located within the West Campus of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the ONPRC enables researchers to study nonhuman primates (NHPs) in a variety of settings using state-of-the-art monitoring and experimental systems (Figure 1).

In 2010, the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) was awarded nearly $10 million (C06RR030323) to renovate space for a core facility...

Located within the heart of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute, the Clinical Vector Core (CVC) fills a unique role within the biomedical research community. The CVC provides services to academic, industry, and government groups for the advancement of gene therapy research.

Dr. Frank Slack, Director of the Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine (HIRM), envisions a promising future for RNA-based therapeutics—a future he believes will be supported by core facilities like the Precision RNA Medicine Core Facility (RNA Core) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.