JAX® Cryorecovery Services

Sperm Cryo Recovery Service

If you used our Sperm Cryopreservation Service or our Sperm Cryo Kit to cryopreserve your strains, we can produce live mice for you in as little as nine weeks.

Key benefits

  • Recovery completed within nine to 12 weeks
  • All mice produced are specific and opportunistic pathogen-free (SOPF) and shipped with a comprehensive health report

Capabilities

  • Protocols developed by JAX, pioneers in cryopreservation technology
  • Standard recovery yields an average of 10 or more mice
  • Larger cohorts can be economically produced from strains with high fertilization rates through our Speed Expansion Service
  • Cryopreserved embryos can be produced from cryopreserved sperm

Pricing

  • Standard Recovery for most strains: $1,300 (varies with background, fertilization rate, and quantity desired)

Chart: New sperm cryopreservation methods across inbred mouse strains
Figure 1. Fertilization rates of cryopreserved mouse sperm.
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Embryo Recovery Service

Unparalleled expertise in embryo handling, transfer, and recovery.

Key benefits

  • Recovery completed within nine to 12 weeks
  • Mice produced are SOPF and shipped with a comprehensive health report
  • Pioneering expertise in embryo handling, transfer, and recovery

Capabilities

  • Standard recovery involves transfer of up to 30 embryos into two pseudopregnant females
  • Genotyping available at additional cost

Pricing

  • Most strains: $950 for up to 30 embryos transferred
  • Inquire about scaled recoveries

To date, we have cryopreserved and recovered more than 4,000 strains on 50 different genetic backgrounds.

JAX technicians successfully recover more than 1,000 cryopreserved strains each year.


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