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A close-up photo of blue-gloved hands pouring fresh wood-shaving bedding from a scoop into a clean polycarbonate cage, a mound of white nesting material already pressed into the far corner.

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August 5, 2026

Cage Bedding Is a Variable, Not a Given

Bedding gets bought like a shop supply: whatever’s in stock, whatever’s cheapest, swapped when a vendor backorders. It doesn’t behave…


A realistic close-up photo: a blue-gloved hand holds a small clear microfluidic organ-on-a-chip up to soft daylight, with a microscope and culture flasks blurred on the lab bench behind.
July 16, 2026

New Approach Methodologies are having a moment. The hard part isn’t believing they’re coming. It’s telling the validated tools from…


An illustrated vivarium cage rack; one cage has a worn, smudged handwritten card, the next a clean machine-readable 2D code, linked by a flow line.
June 22, 2026

We talk about the reproducibility crisis in terms of statistics and study design. Some of it starts somewhere much smaller…


The 2023 National AALAS (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science) conference held last week in Salt Lake City brought together…


Charles River Offering Enhanced Ear Tags for Mouse Custom Breeding Services

Enhanced Ear Tags for Mouse Custom Breeding Services Having a system to rapidly identify and collect data from research animal…


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Lab Animal Management Software Integration: tick@lab

Lab Animal Management Software Integration: RapID Lab & tick@lab Take Only 90 Seconds to Integrate Baltimore, MD – Nov 30,…


​The Necessity of Lab Animal Testing

Animal testing has long been the backbone of scientific research. It is a widely accepted practice for testing the safety…