Our experts manage complex or routine projects on time and within budget. By maintaining personalized, custom mouse colonies, we ensure you get the mice you need, when you need them, allowing you to focus on your research and therapeutic development.
Need a dedicated mouse colony, support rederiving test mouse colonies, or help managing large-scale animal colonies? JAX supports your research with expert colony management, scalable breeding solutions, and trusted animal care.
JAX has nearly 100 years of experience maintaining live and cryopreserved mouse colonies while constantly innovating to improve animal health and wellbeing, as well as colony productivity. Our legacy of excellence in mouse colony management ensures your research models remain healthy, genetically stable, and reproducible.
JAX offers multiple options to preserve your valuable mouse models ensuring safety and accessibility in perpetuity. This is an essential step in long-term rodent colony management.
Cryorecover, breed and expand your colony to generate the mice you need to begin your studies promptly while ensuring health and genetic quality. Minimize delays in your mouse colony experiments with fast, dependable recovery and expansion services.
Custom breeding options designed to be flexible and meet your research or therapeutic development goals. Create a personalized colony from any strain in the JAX Repository, or combine strains to create new models and tools. No matter which colony is right for you, your mice are ready when you need them, saving you vivarium space and resources.
This proactive approach to mouse colony management reduces overhead while supporting your specific study design.
Protect your valuable mouse strains against disease, breeding cessation, and disasters. Cryopreservation also offers a solution to genetic drift, providing a backup in case of the spontaneous loss of phenotype, and facilitating easy strain distribution to partners and fellow researchers.
Cryopreservation is a foundational component of responsible mouse colony maintenance, ensuring the longevity and reproducibility of your model systems.
Every year, we successfully cryorecover over 2,500 strains from sperm and embryos for researchers around the world. JAX offers multiple options for the preservation of germplasm and can recover live mice for you in as little as nine weeks, yielding an average of ten pups.
Cryorecovery services are essential for restarting or scaling your test mouse colonies efficiently and securely.
Rapidly generate large quantities of mice to expand your unique colonies or to generate cohorts of JAX® Mice that are only available in limited supply saving you valuable time. Ideal for scaling your rodent colony management operations quickly and cost-effectively.
Our expert surgeons perform precise, aseptic surgeries on mice, ensuring accurate placement and smooth recovery. All procedures occur in HEPA-filtered, positive pressure suites, delivering mice tailored to your research needs.
Ensure the genetic background of new or existing strains and identify unwanted genetic contaminations before they impact your research. Genome scanning can also be used to guide backcrossing efforts when moving an allele to a new genetic background, ensuring congenicity in half the time of traditional backcrossing. Genome scanning is a powerful tool in maintaining genetic integrity across animal colonies, preventing setbacks in mouse colony maintenance.
Would you like to minimize the resources you use to support your research mouse colonies? During this seminar, we discuss strategies to save cost and time by efficiently managing mouse colonies. Watch this video to learn about:
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