This feed contains news and announcements from JAX Mice and Services http://jaxmice.jax.org/ Mouse screening project to text mouse lifespan-extending ability of thousands of compounds http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/rosScreening.html news/2009/rosScreening.html-92766 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST Scientists network to facilitate craniofacial research http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/FaceBase.html news/2009/FaceBase.html-91773 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:23:00 EST JAX Institute of Personalized Medicine in Florida http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/Florida.html news/2009/Florida.html-91767 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:00 EST Pathways to Discovery: Autoimmune Diseases. New resource illustrating common biological pathways and presenting relevant mouse models and resources for several autoimmune diseases http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/Pathways.html news/2009/Pathways.html-91739 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:54:00 EDT Although hereditary deafness is a common human birth defect, the majority of genes that underlie hearing disorders in humans are thought to be unidentified. One of those genes has just been discovered. Read more... http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/Claudin9.html news/2009/Claudin9.html-91412 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:05:00 EDT Potential New Vaccine for Metabolic Disorders http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/vaccine.html news/2009/vaccine.html-90638 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:00 EDT Will your mouse-based research stand the test of time? Or will it be confounded by genetic drift, ". . . the constant tendency of genes to evolve even in the absence of selective forces... fueled by spontaneous neutral mutations that disappear or become fixed in a population at random..."? http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/09patented.html news/2009/09patented.html-90911 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:05:00 EDT Potential MS Therapy Uses Body's Own Cells http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/experimentalmstherapy.html news/2009/experimentalmstherapy.html-89173 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:38:00 EDT MGI has just added over 500,000 gene-trapped mouse cell lines and gene trap sequences from the NCBI Genome Survey Sequence Datrabase (dbGSS). http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/genetrapped.html news/2009/genetrapped.html-89203 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:08:00 EDT Professor Robert W. Burgess, Ph.D, has been a principal investigator at The Jackson Laboratory since 2001. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/burgess.html news/2009/burgess.html-89170 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:53:00 EDT High Resolution Genotyping for the Mouse http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/newarray.html news/2009/newarray.html-88787 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:02:00 EDT Make the Right Move with JAX Services http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/onthemove.html news/2009/onthemove.html-88784 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:44:00 EDT It's not too late to Implement a Disaster Planning and Preparedness Program http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/disasterPlanning.html news/2009/disasterPlanning.html-88759 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:35:00 EDT People with Down syndrome are 10 times less susceptible to most solid tumors and develop fewer angiogenic diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy and atherosclerosis, than the general population. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/downsyndrome.html news/2009/downsyndrome.html-88749 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:35:00 EDT Researchers Cryopreserving Mouse Strains to Save Resources http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/deepfreeze.html news/2009/deepfreeze.html-88782 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:51:00 EDT The most frequent topic our technical support group handles is strain genotyping. Our entire system for updating and recording strain genotyping protocols has been revamped. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/08protocolsdb.html news/2009/08protocolsdb.html-88747 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:51:00 EDT Does your research require a large number of commonly used laboratory mice? Accomplish more with your research dollars by saving 5-10% on strains available from both our east and west coast facilities. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/volumePricing.html news/2009/volumePricing.html-83912 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:25:00 EDT These superior, pluripotent, and non-transformed mES cell lines are derived from gold standard genetically well-defined JAX Mice strains. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/08mEScells.html news/2009/08mEScells.html-86183 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:10:00 EDT Advances in genetic engineering are rapidly increasing the number of Parkinson's disease (PD) mouse models that faithfully recapitulate the human disease process. Recently, the Michael J. Fox Foundation awarded the PDMMR additional funding to distribute additional new models license-free and enable high-impact collaborations. http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/08parkinsons.html news/2009/08parkinsons.html-86168 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:52:00 EDT JAX recently received a $3.8 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop mouse models for stem cell research. Read more... http://jaxmice.jax.org/news/2009/08stemcell.html news/2009/08stemcell.html-85998 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:54:00 EDT