JAX offers sperm and embryo cryopreservation services using advanced technologies. We have successfully cryopreserved and recovered over 22,000 strains of diverse genetic backgrounds.
Secure your research while saving resources through Sperm and Embryo Cryopreservation
Cryopreservation of either sperm or embryos enables you to dramatically reduce costs associated with mouse colony maintenance, particularly of low use strains. Not only does it protect your valuable mouse strains against disease, breeding cessation and disasters, cryopreservation also protects your research by:
- Limiting genetic drift
- Preventing the spontaneous loss of phenotype
- Enabling easy recovery of specified and opportunistic pathogen free (SOPF) mice: no quarantine required upon arrival
- Facilitating strain distribution to fellow researchers, making it easier to share your strain with the scientific community
Cost-benefit of cryopreserving versus maintaining live colonies of low use research strains
The cost to maintain a heterozygous colony that requires frequent genotyping ranges from a few thousand to over $10,000 per year. Even in a scenario with low per diem rates, the cumulative cost of maintaining a colony increases significantly faster than the cumulative cost of cryopreserving a strain, even if a couple recoveries need to be done.
