The IDMB provides state-of-the-art equipment and services to the research and teaching community of TAMU through its component laboratories, the Gene Technologies Laboratory (GTL), and the Rice Biotechnology Laboratory (RBL). The IDMB hosts researchers from other institutions interested in developmental and molecular biology, especially relative to transgenic rice, and the role of chromatin in gene expression and gene silencing.

The GTL houses automated sequencers and DNA extraction equipment and provides inexpensive services to some 150 researchers in the Texas A&M community. For details see Gene Technologies Lab.