OUR LABORATORIES
SBC’s R&D Programme focuses on making discoveries in biological resources that would lead to the development of herbal therapies, nutraceuticals, cosmaceuticals for health-care and pharmaceutical drugs for countering diseases such as cancer and infectious agents. The programme also aims to discover chemicals and enzymes from our biological resources that would be useful over a broad range of applications as industrial related products such as essential oils, bio-pesticides and commercial dyes.
Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory
The Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory provides a key service along the “jungle-to-lab-to-commercialisation” axis. The focus is to establish protocols to facilitate plant propagation for research and dev...
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Molecular Biology Laboratory
The Molecular Biology laboratory focuses on molecular genetics and in vitro cell lines screening. Techniques of modern molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics are utilised along with a full rang...
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Microbiology Laboratory
The microbial world represents one of the largest untapped genetic resources in biodiversity which produce biologically and chemically unique yet diverse natural product compounds for drug discoveries...
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Extraction Laboratory
All the plant samples collected from local communities will be processed at the Plant Preparation area upon arrival, which includes washing, sorting, cutting, drying and grinding.
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Biodiversity Make Scents - Essential Oil Project
Biodiversity can generate a wide range of interesting natural ingredients for the development of commercially health and personal care products. Some plants produce volatile and fragrant substances th...
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Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
Extracts obtained from Extraction Laboratory and Microbiology Laboratory are sent to the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for isolation and purification of compounds using various chromatographic techn...
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