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Colony Management Services

Our experts manage simple or complex projects on time and within budget. By maintaining personalized, custom colonies, we ensure you get the mice you need, when you need them, allowing you to focus on your research and therapeutic development.

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Colony Management Services - The Jackson Laboratory

How JAX Supports Your Research

Built on Experience
Built on Experience

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.

Ensure the Security of Your Strains
Ensure the Security of Your Strains

JAX offers multiple options to preserve your valuable mouse models ensuring safety and accessibility in perpetuity.

Access the Mice You Need When You Need Them
Access the Mice You Need When You Need Them

Cryorecover, breed and expand your colony to generate the mice you need to begin your studies promptly while ensuring health and genetic quality.

Breeding Services

Breeding Services

Custom breeding options designed to be flexible and meet your research or therapeutic development goals. Create a personalized colony form 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.

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Cryopreservation

Cryopreservation

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.

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Cryorecovery

Cryorecovery

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.

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IVF Expansion

IVF Expansion

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.

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Surgical Services

Surgical Services

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.

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Genome Scanning

Genome Scanning

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.

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View our Webinar on Efficient Mouse Colony Management

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:

  • The fundamentals of mouse reproduction
  • Factors affecting mouse breeding performance
  • The importance of rigorous data collection and record keeping
  • Advice for maximizing mouse colony productivity and minimizing cost

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