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Our Services


Quantitative Metabolic Analysis

  • Different analytical methods with relative quantification available for:

    • Common microbial nutrients, media components and waste products (*)

    • Central carbon metabolites (**)

    • Fatty acids

  • Untargeted and semi-targeted analysis available

  • Semi-targeted analysis covers over 650 metabolites with ready quantification mixes for > 100 metabolites

  • < 10 minute assay

  • Optimized for large cohorts of samples (> 5 000 samples) (***)

Specialized Analysis

  • Metabolic flux analysis measures the activity of intracellular pathways by tracing isotopically labeled nutrients through downstream pathways and identifies metabolic pathways that are inhibited/stimulated in disease states

  • Metabolic boundary flux measures Indirectly the activity of intracellular pathways by quantifying the consumption or production of metabolites in media

*Rydzak et al. 2022

**Lu et al. 2010

***Groves et al. 2022


The team at CMRF has helped accomplish over 200 of its partners’ major metabolic research goals. They inspire everyone in the detection of microbial nutrients.
— Dr. Ian Lewis, CMRF

Additional Services:

Absolute Quantitative Analysis:

  • Metabolite extraction and tailored extraction protocols

  • de novo Method Development

  • Consulting on experimental design, data analysis, and interpretation

  • Short Chain Fatty Acid quantification

  • Bile Acid quantification

  • Targeted quantification of key biomarkers in biological samples