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

NAMs: What’s Actually Validated, and What’s Just Hype

New Approach Methodologies are having a moment. The hard part isn’t believing they’re coming. It’s telling the validated tools from the ones that are still a promise. If you follow the trade press at all, you can’t miss it. New…


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

The Quietest Threat to Your Study’s Validity: A Mislabeled Cage

We talk about the reproducibility crisis in terms of statistics and study design. Some of it starts somewhere much smaller — a faded digit on a cage card. If you’ve spent any time in a vivarium, you’ve squinted at a…


Genetically Engineered Models: Use of a 2D Barcode Mini Tag for Identification of Mice in an Automated Colony Management System

The 2023 National AALAS (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science) conference held last week in Salt Lake City brought together the experts in the field of laboratory animal science. Among some of the stellar presentations during the tech talk, one…


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 models ensures efficiency and data integrity. Our Genetically Engineered Models and Services (GEMS) team now uses smaller colored mouse ear…


Management Software Integration

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, 2018 Integrating state of-the-art systems in a modern research lab doesn’t have to be complicated. RapID Lab and a-tune proved…


​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 and efficacy of new drugs before implementing on human. This has resulted in massive breakthroughs in medicine and treatments and…


Top 10 Cancer Treatment Breakthroughs of the 21st Century

Cancer, a class of disease that is characterized by abnormal cell growth, is no stranger to humanity. Researchers have long placed essential focus on studying and finding a cure for this complex and detrimental disease. According to the CDC, cancer…