Sperm Cryopreservation Service

Unparalleled Expertise in Sperm Cryo to Protect Your Research

Sperm Cryopreservation techniques were developed by JAX scientists and are an essential tool for efficient colony management. JAX Sperm Cryo Services enables you to conserve resources when you are not actively using a model and to ensure your valuable strains are protected from unfortunate events, including natural disasters, facility failures, disease outbreaks, breeding cessation and genetic drift. By allowing our reproductive science experts to cryopreserve your research strain, you leverage our unmatched capabilities for successful cryorecovery. In addition, Sperm Cryo Service allows you to:

• Get started quickly and inexpensively - only 2 males needed
• Achieve reliable recovery of archived sperm
• Rapidly build a colony of specified and opportunistic pathogen free (SOPF) mice
• Distribute your strain to collaborators easily

Features

• Quality control fertilization test via IVF to two-cell embryos
• 1-years of storage included in tanks at multiple locations
• At least 18 straws of sperm stored per strain
• Recovery of your cryopreserved strain 9 to 11 weeks after you place a request
• Ten or more pups typically recovered from cryopreserved material