{"id":2239,"date":"2019-06-26T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/?page_id=2239"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:36:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><h2 class=\"section-som\"><span>Welcome<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/strong><strong>We are the Airway Bio<span style=\"color: inherit\">Core @ UNC<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"well well-sm  oscitas-bootstrap-container \"><strong>Our Mission<\/strong><\/div><\/h4>\n<h1 data-path-to-node=\"5\">Accelerating Lung Research with Standardized Human Primary Cells<\/h1>\n<h3 data-path-to-node=\"6\">Precision starts here.<\/h3>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Welcome to the <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"15\">Airway BioCore @ UNC (ABC)<\/b>\u2014formerly known as the MLI Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core. While our name has changed, our mission remains the same: providing the high-fidelity biological materials essential for breakthrough research in Cystic Fibrosis, COPD, and asthma.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\"><b data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Why partner with ABC?<\/b> In respiratory research, your data is only as reliable as your samples. We eliminate the variables by providing:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"9\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"9,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Gold-Standard Models:<\/b> Well-differentiated human airway epithelial cultures that mimic <i data-path-to-node=\"9,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"86\">in vivo<\/i> biology.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9,1,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"9,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Total Consistency:<\/b> Standardized, de-identified primary cells from normal, CF, and disease-control donors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9,2,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"9,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Reproducible Results:<\/b> A centralized source that ensures your experiments can be scaled and validated with confidence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Our Track Record:<\/b> The <strong>ABC<\/strong> has a proven history of high-volume production and quality assurance. Since 1982, we have processed over <b>8,600 human tissue specimens<\/b>. Our recent output highlights our capacity: between 2020 and 2023, we generated an average of over <b><span class=\"math-inline\"><span class=\"katex\"><span class=\"katex-html\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"base\"><span class=\"mord\">93<\/span><span class=\"mbin\">\u00d7<\/span><\/span><span class=\"base\"><span class=\"mord\">1<\/span><span class=\"mord\">0<sup><span class=\"msupsub\"><span class=\"vlist-t\"><span class=\"vlist-r\"><span class=\"vlist\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight\"><span class=\"mord mtight\">9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> viable primary and passage one human airway epithelial cells<\/b> annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcement:<\/strong> ****Currently we are not offering human alveolar type II (AT2) epithelial cells. 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While our name has changed, our mission remains the same: providing the high-fidelity biological materials essential for breakthrough research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81071,"featured_media":2357,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2239","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2239\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/airwaybiocore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}