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Envision™: Supporting Better Decisions in Animal Welfare

Envision delivers unprecedented insights into animal health, with a continuous and non-invasive approach to on-study mouse monitoring. Adoption of the Envision platform reduces animal handling, expands oversight without extra staff, and enables early detection of health concerns.

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Limitations of Conventional
Assessment Methods

Conventional assessment methods for mice carry fundamental limitations:

  • Gaps in Visibility: Manual checks provide only snapshot moments, missing critical continuous health and behavioral insights that occur between episodic assessments.
  • Wasted Resources: Manual handling and observation create an artificial environment with increased variation that can result in extended studies and larger-than-necessary cohorts.
  • Reactive Interventions: Significant handling causes significant stress and potentially alters their natural behaviors leading to unclear outcomes, confounded studies and repeated studies.

JAX Envision™ Mice Assessment Methods

JAX Envision™ - HealthSense App - Feeding Behavior in Events per 24 Hours (Including Sniffing Behavior)- Saline vs LPS Administration

*Feeding Behavior in Events per 24 Hours (Including Sniffing Behavior)- Saline vs LPS Administration
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HealthSense: Objective Non-Invasive Health Monitoring

Envision tackles these challenges through its HealthSense app. This feature provides highly sensitive, continuous, objective, and non-invasive monitoring of on-study mouse health and behavior, enabling earlier detection of illness, improved welfare, richer study data, and greater reproducibility across preclinical models.

HealthSense offers graphical representations of individual and cage-level activities, including activity, distance traveled, drinking, feeding, and social distance for each mouse, facilitating comprehensive comparative analysis.

Enhanced Health and Physiology Monitoring through Comprehensive
Data Collection

Envision™ is innovating research methodology by continuously capturing digital measures beyond conventional capabilities:

  • Comprehensive Tracking: Advanced machine learning and digital home-cage technology enable continuous, high-precision monitoring of behavioral and physiological parameters, revealing insights beyond conventional episodic assessments.
  • Proactive Health Management: Real-time, non-invasive surveillance detects subtle physiological and behavioral changes, facilitating early intervention and optimizing colony health and research outcomes.

Integrated Research Capabilities:

  • 24/7 remote monitoring with automated alerts
  • Comprehensive data streaming
  • Collaborative research platform for phenotype observation and health tracking

JAX Envision™ - Enhanced Health and Physiology Monitoring through Comprehensive Data Collection

JAX Envision™ - More Reproducible and Translatable Science Supporting the 3Rs

More Reproducible and Translatable Science Supporting the 3Rs

Envision™ reimagines ethical research methodologies:

  • Replacement: Minimize the need for invasive manual observation. Envision's continuous monitoring reduces reliance on manual interventions, providing comprehensive data without additional animal handling.
  • Refinement: Enhance animal welfare through minimal disturbance. Envision's 24/7 monitoring allows researchers to track animal health and behavior with unprecedented precision, while minimizing stress-inducing interactions.
  • Reduction: Decrease the number of animals required in research studies. By capturing more detailed, continuous data, researchers can obtain more insights from fewer animals, reducing overall animal usage.

Validated Data Measures

Continuous monitoring of relevant validated digital measures ensures early detection of health issues without physical inspection or colony entry.

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Activity Suite - Behavior

Active
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Active Behavior
Moving but in a stationary position, e.g., grooming
Inactive
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Inactive Behavior
No detectable movement
Climbing
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Climbing Behavior
All four paws above the cage floor
Locomoting
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Locomoting Behavior
Moving around the cage
Huddle NEW
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Huddle Behavior
Body pressed against another mouse's
Inferred Sleep
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Inferred Sleep Behavior
Inactive or huddle states lasting > 40s
Drinking
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Drinking Behavior
Drinking-like behavior at the bottle lixit
Feeding
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Feeding Behavior
Feeding-like behavior at the food hopper
Undetected
NEW
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Undetected Behavior
Animal obscured or not individually identifiable

Activity Suite - Movement

Activity
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Movement Activity
Movement, measured in cm/s
Total Distance
Traveled
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Total Distance Traveled
Overall distance during locomoting bouts, in cm
Social
Distance
JAX Envision™ - Activity Suite - Social Distance
Distance from other mice in the cage, in cm

Cage & Resource Monitoring

Motion
Estimation
JAX Envision™ - Cage & Resource Monitoring - Motion Estimation
Cage-level activity tracked even when studies aren't running
Food Level
JAX Envision™ - Cage & Resource Monitoring - Food Level
Automated monitoring of water bottle
Water Level
JAX Envision™ - Cage & Resource Monitoring - Water Level
Automated monitoring of food hopper

Physiological Measure

Respiratory
Rate
JAX Envision™ - Physiological Measure - Respiratory Rate
Breaths per minute for each animal

For an in-depth exploration of how Envision can change your vivarium, explore our Envision Resources

Applying Digital Measures to Assess Dose Effects of Neuroactive Compounds

Applying Digital Measures to Assess Dose Effects of Neuroactive Compounds

JAX Envision™ delivers continuous, objective, and quantitative measures of animal behavior and physiology, enhancing pharmacology and toxicology studies by detecting drug-related effects with greater sensitivity.

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Leveraging Continuous Home-Cage Monitoring to Improve Science and Animal Welfare

Leveraging Continuous Home-Cage Monitoring to Improve Science and Animal Welfare

Learn how the Behavioral Phenotyping Core at Seattle Children’s Research Institute expanded its capabilities with the integration of the Allentown Discovery IVC Rack powered by The Jackson Laboratory.

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