JAX® NOTES Issue 509, Spring 2008

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In this issue...

JAX® In Vivo Services Expands Support for Cancer Research

JAX® In Vivo Services is significantly expanding its service offerings for cancer research. This expansion comes at a very critical time to meet the increased demands of expediting translational cancer medicine.

A Letter from Dr. Neal Goodwin

The JAX® In Vivo Services Cancer program offers customized cancer research services suited to individual client requirements. This focus on individualized customer service currently offers a breadth of technologies that spans from traditional xenograft services to advanced humanized mouse models of cancer.

JAX® Services Enables Research with Genetically-Engineered Mice from Ingenium, Ozgene and TIGM

Genetically-engineered mice, such as targeted mutants, knockins, and other transgenics, have become critically important tools for understanding gene function and developing therapies for human diseases.

NEW: JAX® Gene Expression Service Offered

Need a quick, accurate, affordable way to analyze gene expression in one or several mouse tissues? Our new Gene Expression Service may be just what you're looking for.

JAX® Necropsy & Histology Services Now Offered

The Jackson Laboratory is now offering both necropsy and histology services where we can collect, fix, section, embed, and stain tissues from either JAX® Mice or customer-supplied mouse strains that are part of JAX® Services breeding projects.

JAX® STZ-induced Diabetes Service Jump-Starts Your Research

Jump-start your diabetes research with STZ-induced diabetic mice from The Jackson Laboratory. We use a multiple low dose streptozotocin (MDSTZ) protocol developed here to induce pancreatic islet damage in mice so that you can order mice confirmed to be diabetic.

JAX® Colony Maintenance and Production Services Offer Researchers Economies of Time, Money, and Space

Most researchers face an often daunting task: how to divide limited funds among the competing needs of equipment, personnel, and supplies, while concurrently focusing on their primary mission - successful research. The Jackson Laboratory, through its JAX® Services Group, can help.

NEW JAX® Mice & Services Field Representatives

During the past several years, we have assembled a knowledgeable and talented team of Regional Representatives who are eager to speak with you about how JAX® Mice and Services can facilitate your research and make the best use of your research dollars.

Online Therapeutic Area Web Pages and Forum Coming Soon

Sharing ideas, discussing research problems or successes and developing collaborative insights - these are some of the goals for a new communications medium on The Jackson Laboratory's Web site - an interactive Therapeutic Area Discussion Forum.

Book "Biology of the Laboratory Mouse" Online

Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) recently published an online version of the book Biology of the Laboratory Mouse by the Staff of The Jackson Laboratory, edited by Earl L. Green.

New Jackson Laboratory Public Web Site Debuts

On Sunday, February 24, the significantly revised and improved Jackson Laboratory website went "live" - the first major revision of the public site since 2003.

Newly Available JAX® Mice Strains

Newly Available JAX® Mice Strains

Ground Delivery Services Expanded to Arizona and New Mexico Customers

In response to customer demand, The Jackson Laboratory is now providing ground-based transportation of JAX® Mice to most major cities in Arizona and New Mexico.

Good Vibrations Keep Mice Slim

Good, good, good, good vibrations. Maybe the Beach Boys were onto something. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, along with The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, have demonstrated that mice exposed to 15 weeks of virtually imperceptible vibrations develop far fewer fat cells and have substantially lower liver triglyceride levels and other key type 2 diabetes risk factors than genetically identical controls.

JAX® Colony Management System Upgrade Released

The latest and significantly improved upgrade to the JAX® Colony Management System (JCMS), Version 3.0.3, has just been released.

Dr. Lindsay Shopland Investigates 3D Chromosome Architecture

Jackson Laboratory Assistant Professor Lindsay Shopland PhD was first inspired to study science by her 9th grade biology teacher, who encouraged her to participate in an outreach program for high school students at Columbia University.

JAX® Mice Delivers

This has been a tough winter across the country, but nowhere more so than in the barren reaches of Rock Springs, Wyoming where a truck, carrying a valuable cargo of 7,000 JAX® Mice headed west got caught in bad weather and had to pull off the road.

Jackson Laboratory's Leonard Shultz PhD Helps Develop a Better Leukemia Mouse Model

Dr. Leonard Shultz of The Jackson Laboratory and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and several Japanese institutions (including the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology) have significantly increased our understanding of and moved the medical field closer to a cure for myelogenous leukemia (AML).

Newly Revised and Expanded Cancer Resources Manual Available in April

JAX® Mice & Services is releasing an expanded and revised Cancer Resources Manual, available to interested researchers in April.