JAX® Sperm Cryopreservation Service
The techniques for this revolutionary breakthrough in colony management were developed at The Jackson Laboratory. The unparalleled fertilization rates of recovered sperm enable reliable, cost-effective, and scaleable colony expansion.
Key benefits
- Dramatically reduces the cost of cryopreserving mouse strains
- Costs less than maintaining a live colony for six months
- Only two male mice needed
- Quality control (QC) check via IVF for every strain
- Includes safe, long term sample storage in multiple tanks and locations
- Insures against loss from disease, breeding cessation, natural and other disasters
- High fertilization and recovery rates enables direct expansion for rapid colony builds
- Limits genetic drift
- Prevents spontaneous loss of phenotype
Capabilities
- Suitable for all genetically modified strains
- At least 16 straws of sperm stored per strain
- Quality control includes a fertilization test via IVF to two-cell embryos
- Sperm stored for three years in three tanks at two sites (included in the cost)
Pricing
- Most strains: $1,800 includes QC tests and three years of storage
- Additional years of storage: $175/strain/year
- Recovery of live born pups (strongly recommended): $650/strain
Recovery
- We can recover your strain in 9 to 11 weeks from the time of your request
- Cost for recovery is $1,300 for most strains
- All recovered mice are specific and opportunistic pathogen-free (SOPF)
- Typically, eight or more mice are recovered
- This is a great way to share your unique mouse strain with colleagues
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