Taconic Biosciences' germ-free derivation service lets you generate axenic cohorts of any
mouse model of interest, supporting more efficient investigations into the role of the microbiome in health and disease.
What our customers say:
“Seres relies on Taconic's germ-free mice to study the microbiome and our drug candidates.”
Seres Therapeutics What our customers say:
“Federation Bio utilizes Taconic's germ-free mouse models to advance our pre-clinical research programs. As an early stage microbiome biotech company, Taconic has been a valuable partner in our pre-clinical research.”
Federation Bio
These germ-free cohorts can be used to evaluate the absence of a microbiome on murine physiology, or as a substrate for highly-specific investigations of microbiota.
Germ-Free Derivation and Husbandry
Taconic's germ-free solutions enable a range of breeding plans, services, and timelines to support your research goals.
Whether you are interested in having mouse models derived as germ-free with follow on contract gnotobiotic husbandry for generating study cohorts or having germ-free pregnant recipient females shipped to your own gnotobiotic facility, Taconic will work with you to develop breeding plans and timelines to meet your research goals. Taconic can also perform
custom microbiota associations on client's germ-free derived models or Taconic's commercially available
germ-free mice.
Our services include:
- Rederivation of donor animals to generate germ-free (axenic) animal models.
- Dual isolator redundancy and weekly microbial monitoring to certify Germ Free health standard.
- IVF-generated, germ-free cohorts from ten to forty mice with the same week of birth, with tiered pricing for the number of offspring born. (Please inquire for cohorts>40 animals.)
- Gnotobiotic husbandry to breed germ-free cohorts for study.
- Optional custom microbiota association.
- Transfer of germ-free pregnant recipient females to client's gnotobiotic facility.
- Shipment of all germ-free animals in a Taconic germ-free shipper.
Germ-Free Derivation Protocols
Taconic's custom Germ-Free derivation protocols begin with donor animals from Taconic, a client's own colony, or other commercially-available mice.
Taconic employs
in vitro fertilization to generate embryos for transplant into
Germ Free Swiss Webster pseudo-pregnant female recipients. Following embryo transfer, recipient females are transferred into germ-free isolators and give birth to germ-free offspring.
Taconic performs weekly microbial monitoring to ensure isolators are germ-free, with twelve weeks of negative reports required before an isolator holding derived offspring is considered germ-free.
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