JAX Notes, Spring 2008, Issue 509

Summer 2008, No. 510

Also in this issue:

Investigator Finds Lost Mouse – 30 Years Later

New MGI Web Interface

New Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Therapeutic Discussion Area Online Web Forums Planned

New Autoimmune Disease Resources Manual Available

A Guide to Unpacking and Working with C57BL/6J Diet-induced Obesity (DIO) Mice

Newly Available JAX^® Mice Strains

Brainbow Mice: a Rainbow of Colors in the Brain

Dr. Ed Leiter — Nearly 35 Years Devoted to Diabetes Research

Cancer and Aging Research Specialist Dr. Rick Maser Joins The Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory Adopts New Titles for Research Faculty

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The Jackson Laboratory Expands Focus on Diabetes Research
Diabetes is one of the world's most serious diseases. In America alone, it affects 20.8 million people (seven percent of the population), burdening our economy with approximately $132 billion a year in related health costs.

JAX^® Services for Diabetes Research
The JAX^® Services offers four highly successful services that facilitate diabetes research.

The Scientist: Postdocs Rank The Jackson Laboratory Among Top Ten Best Places to Work
The life sciences magazine The Scientist recently released the results of a yearly international survey it conducts to determine which research institutions and universities provide the best experience for postdocs. In 2008, postdocs ranked The Jackson Laboratory as ninth among U.S. research institutions.

In Vivo Imaging Capabilities Expanded With Xenogen’s IVIS^® Lumina Imaging System
Imagine having the ability to monitor cellular events such as tumor progression and metastasis in live mice! Well, thanks to a newly installed image monitoring system at The Jackson Laboratory — West, that concept is now a reality.

The Jackson Laboratory Steps Up to Green Initiatives
In a world where "going green" is become an increasingly integral part of the collective consciousness, it is also one of the top priorities at The Jackson Laboratory.

The Joslin Foundation and JAX^® Services
The Joslin Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Center for Immune Tolerance in Diabetes at Harvard (CITDH), a collaborative group of eight laboratories based at Harvard Medical School is working with JAX^® Services on an innovative breeding project which supports diabetes research.

BKS.Cg-m +/+ Lepr^db/J (000642), One of the Most Widely-used Diabetes Models at JAX
Who would have thought that a black mouse with a chance mutation would one day become one of the most requested mice in diabetes and obesity research?

One More Piece of the Type 1 Diabetes Puzzle Solved
Preventing diabetes is one of today's most pressing medical challenges. Thanks to Jackson Laboratory researchers Drs. David Serreze and Yi-Guang Chen, along with collaborators at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, N.Y., and Rockefeller University in New York, N.Y., medical science is one step closer to meeting that challenge.

The Jackson Laboratory - Leading the Search for Tomorrow's Cures


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