Disaster planning & preparedness
Your research can be put at risk by many, often unexpected, crises such as natural disasters, equipment failures, genetic contamination, or security breaches of your animal facility. Regardless of the cause, the impact on your research timeline and data can be significant and recovery can take weeks, months or even years. Are your mice and research secure if such an event occurs at your facility? Our Cryopreservation and Recovery Service is a valuable tool for preserving and rapidly recovering your valuable mouse colonies should disaster strike.
Protecting your investments
Disasters are cyclical events and animal facilities are always in at least one of the four phases of a disaster: mitigation, preparedness, response, or recovery. This cyclical nature implies that planning does not end with completion of a written disaster plan, but is rather an ongoing effort. JAX® Services can help in all phases of this cycle:
Mitigation: We can cryopreserve your mouse strains and effectively reduce the impact that a disaster will have on your research.
Preparedness: Our cryopreservation, rederivation, speed expansion and breeding services are valuable tools which can be essential components to an effective disaster preparedness plan.
Response: In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, we can rapidly cryopreserve at-risk mouse strains to prevent their loss. We can also rederive strains which have a decreased health status due to environmental contamination or a disease outbreak.
Recovery: We can rapidly recover your cryopreserved strains and using IVF expansion quickly rebuild colonies to reestablish your research.
It is not a matter of if disasters will occur, but of when they will occur.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help protect your mice and research.
