Accelerate your research timelines with JAX Expansion Services. Whether you need large, synchronized cohorts for in vivo studies or fast, precision-driven genetic transfer, JAX provides the speed, health quality, and scientific rigor required to quickly scale up your colony and keep your programs on schedule.
Our expert colony management, world leading genetic expertise, and highest ethical standards deliver high-health-status, genetically reliable, and experiment-ready animals faster than traditional methods.
Partner with JAX to shorten mouse colony development and genetic background refinement,
IVF Expansion is one of the fastest ways to bypass the bottlenecks of traditional breeding. This service is used for large age-matched cohorts, rapid colony recovery after breeding challenges, tight developmental stage matching, or fast expansion of rare or low-fertility lines.
Using in vitro fertilization and high-efficiency embryo transfer, this service can produce 50+ synchronized offspring from as few as two male mice in as little as 3 months. This approach saves months compared to natural breeding, providing study-ready animals without compromising genetic quality or health status.
JAX IVF Expansion service delivers:
| Service | IVF Expansion |
|---|---|
| Ideal For | Quickly producing large quantities of same-age, SOPF mice on common genetic backgrounds |
| Requirements | 2 males 10-16 weeks of age. Females provided by JAX |
| Deliverable | SOPF Mice, quantity depends on your research needs. |
| Estimated Timeline | Dependent on size of colony required, but faster than traditional breeding approaches. |
JAX Speed Congenic Service accelerates the process of transferring a mutation onto a specific inbred background and reduces timelines by 50%. This service is used for rapid transfer of targeted alleles to preferred backgrounds, eliminating unwanted genetic drift or variability, and increasing reproducibility across multi-site or long-term programs.
Conventional backcrossing requires ~10 generations and 2-3 years. With marker assisted breeding, JAX can deliver genetically well-defined congenic mice in ~18 months. This service combines SNP-based selection, high health status breeding, and hands-on project management to ensure genetic accuracy and scientific rigor.
Partner with JAX To Achieve Congenic Precision in Half the Time
| Service | Speed Congenic |
|---|---|
| Ideal For | IVF Expansion with genotyping included to backcross your strain to a common inbred background, such as B6. |
| Requirements | For external strains: Minimum of 2x Male HOM/HET mice (HOM preferred), 8-16 weeks of age |
| Deliverable | Congenic mice (>99%) recovered 50% faster than traditional breeding and at at SOPF health status |
| Estimated Timeline | 15-18 months |
