New JAX® Mice & Services Resource Manuals Published

JAX® NOTES Issue 512, Winter 2008

In keeping with our mission to share our resources with the wider scientific community, JAX® Mice & Services has just released three new and very useful tools for biomedical research:

The JAX® Mice Research Tools Manual

Have you wondered how the Cre-lox system works, how you can generate conditional knockouts, what the Tet system is all about, how you can use fluorescent protein-expressing mouse strains, what reporter strains are? Our newly released JAX® Mice Research Tools Manual is an excellent guide to these revolutionary technologies, the JAX® Mice that incorporate them, and how you can use them in your research. The manual contains the following information:

  • Introductions to Cre-lox, FLP-FRT, Tet, fluorescent protein-expressing, and lacZ technologies
  • Descriptions and research applications of selected JAX® Mice strains incorporating these technologies
  • Instructions for finding appropriate JAX® Mice tool strains in the JAX® Mice Database
  • Descriptions of JAX® Services that may facilitate research with tool strains

The JAX® Mice Neurobiology Research Resource Manual

What are some of the cutting edge mouse models for Alzheimer's, Down syndrome, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), Fragile X, ataxia, and other neurological disorders? Are there courses I can take to help me with these research areas? If you're asking these questions, this manual has lots of answers. It briefly describes the following:

  • Neurobiology research conducted by Jackson Laboratory scientists
  • 64 of the hundreds of JAX® Mice models suitable for neurobiology research
  • JAX® Services that can facilitate neurobiology research
  • Online resources relevant to neurobiology research
  • JAX courses and conferences relevant to neurobiology research

The JAX® Mice Sensorineural Research Resource Manual

This manual, previously part of the first edition of the Neurobiology Resources Manual (see above), covers diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, age-related hearing loss, and other sensorineural diseases. It briefly describes the following:

  • Sensorineural research conducted by Jackson Laboratory scientists
  • Over 20 of the hundreds of JAX® Mice models suitable for sensorineural research
  • JAX® Services that can facilitate sensorineural research
  • Online resources relevant to sensorineural research
  • Jackson Laboratory courses and conferences relevant to sensorineural research

To order one of these new resource manuals today, fill out our literature request form.