'When anything is medicine it is sacred...for it keeps life in the body'
-Mississipian Medicine Man
Carbon Dynamics Institute, LLC is a full-service analytical mass spectrometry facility that utilizes the latest in technological advances to provide our clientele with reliable data of known quality. With our team of experts, CDI offers services and products that provide solutions for the most challenging scientific questions.
Laboratory Services
REGULATORY
EPA Services
To complement routine environmental analyses, CDI specializes in the development of high resolution compliance methods.
FDA Services
CDI serves the food and drug industry with assays specific to the client's needs from stability testing to pharmacokinetic study development.
CDI offers affordable assays to the cannabinoid industry for compliance monitoring and potency determinations.
Marijuana Services
RESEARCH
Analytical Services
With advanced mass spectrometry techniques, small and large molecule characterizations can become routine analysis for research or industrial processes.
Proteomic Services
CDI offers a full range of proteomic services including, but not limited to, protein identification, protein expression, and de novo sequencing, with unequivocal PTM characterizations.
Physiological Services
To complement molecular structure with function, CDI employs bioactivity assays, e.g. patch clamp electrophysiology, to help elucidate new molecular entities.
Basic Services
CDI offers affordable preparatory techniques, ranging from total protein to molecule purifications. Many of these services are provided at no additional charge with the advanced techniques.
Products
VENOM & TOXINS
CDI maintains a large library of pure venoms that have been processed for long term stability.
Venoms
Toxins
CDI employs a wide variety of analytical techniques to purify and validate toxins needed for research.
Synthetics
CDI synthesize high purity small molecules and peptides with full MS validation.
Who We Are
With laboratory facilities located in the heart of central Illinois, CDI specializes in high-end mass spectrometry services to provide regulatory compliance and research innovative solutions. We employ unit and high resolution tandem mass spectrometry for ultimate sensitivity levels and superior quantitation required in routine analytical determinations. To evaluate more challenging molecular questions, our high resolution quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometers with ion mobility allow us to elucidate unparalleled structural information in the most complex matrices.