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Home-Cage Monitoring: The Night Shift We Never See

October 14, 2026

Mice do most of their living after the lights go off and the last technician goes home. Continuous monitoring is…

A technician's blue-gloved hands hold a red handling tunnel with a calm white mouse peeking out, above a cage of fresh shredded-paper bedding in a quiet vivarium.

The 3Rs in Practice: What Refinement Looks Like on a Tuesday

October 6, 2026

The 3Rs get taught as three words on a slide. On the floor, Refinement is a run of small choices…

A technician crouches at the bottom shelf of a vivarium cage rack holding a light meter to a dim cage where a white mouse sits, while the top shelves glow bright, showing how vivarium lighting falls off down a rack.

Vivarium Lighting Is a Variable, Not a Fixture

October 1, 2026

Everyone remembers to set the light timer. Almost nobody checks what the cage on the bottom shelf is actually getting….

A technician's gloved hands at a vivarium bench, cage cards fanned beside a laptop open to a LIMS screen, a mouse cage softly out of focus behind them, warm documentary lighting.

Cage Card to LIMS: Where Rodent ID Data Actually Breaks Down

September 8, 2026

We’ve covered why a wrong ID quietly wrecks a study. This time the question is narrower: where, exactly, does the…

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

November 1, 2023

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