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The times they are a-changin' for GEM and the facilities that maintain them. Core facilities are expanding beyond their original conception as producers of transgenic mice to encompass a wide range of services, including research animal maintenance. In this paper, the authors describe the logistics and administration of the newly dubbed Mouse Genetics Core Facility at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a blueprint for other institutions seeking to expand and update their own transgenic cores for research in the twenty-first century.
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Mark, W., Romanienko, P., Lipman, N. et al. The new transgenic mouse core: no longer a facility just for making mice. Lab Anim 35, 27–34 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban1106-27
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