ARL provides a comprehensive range of standard cell and molecular biology work to offer a more complete solution for your research needs. Functioning as a central laboratory, ARL provides cost-effective R&D services for customers. ARL believes that effective and well-managed outsourcing has tremendous value in allowing customers to focus on essential core functions internal in their organizations, move up the value chain in their workflows and increase overall productivity.

• Cell line construction and engineering, confirmation by gene or protein expression studies (gene overexpression / RNAi knockdown / hybridomas)


• Derivation of primary cancer cells from tumours


• Custom cell line services: bulk cultures, banking, mycoplasma testing


• Proteomics (protein complex studies, enzyme substrate identification and validation)


• Protein expression: using various expression and purification systems; functional validation of proteins as per specified by clients

Standard Molecular Biology Work

• Molecular cloning (cDNA, shRNA; various vectors available)


• DNA preparation and manipulation: mutagenesis, deletion / insertion / fusion / reporter constructs; functional validation as per criteria specified by clients


• Antibody generation and testing (polyclonal, monoclonal; western blotting, ELISA, IHC, FACS, high-content imaging) as per criteria specified by clients


• Validation of reagents / protocols eg. siRNA knockdown efficiency, activity of mutated genes


• Genomics (cDNA, mRNA, microRNA expression profiling; qPCR, bDNA)


• Epigenomics (DNA methylation, chIP-chip, chIP-PCR, chIP-sequencing)