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THE TACONIC-CYAGEN ACADEMIC MODEL GENERATION ALLIANCE EXPERIENCE
Oct 29, 2020
Taconic Biosciences and Cyagen Biosciences have formed a strategic non-profit alliance. As partners, Taconic and Cyagen leverage the power of our complementary approaches to redefine the model generation customer experience by bringing the best and most competitive solutions to the market. Read More >
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Consultations for Academic Researchers Interested in CAMA Grants
Oct 23, 2020
Academic researchers interested in utilizing mouse or rat models are invited to apply for the Taconic-Cyagen Custom Animal Model Awards (CAMA) competition – offering a range of grant awards valued over $77,350 that will help fund six (6) custom animal model (CAM) project proposals anticipated to most significantly impact their respective research fields. Read More >
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Exclusive Webinar: Introduction to Genetically Engineered Rodent Models
Oct 21, 2020
Animal modeling has a played a prominent role in traditional scientific research for hundreds of years. More recently, inbred strains have been developed to support genetically modified models – sometimes called the “living reagents” or “living instruments” of biomedical and health research. Read More >
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Breaking News
Conditional Knockout (Floxed) Mice Now Available from Cyagen Knockout Catalog Models
Oct 19, 2020
In March 2020, Cyagen officially launched the Cyagen Knockout Catalog Models repository – which has provided researchers in the Americas and Europe with ready to use knockout (KO) mouse models in as few as three (3) months. To date, we have cryopreserved sperm from over 10k KO mouse strains to offer affordable, established, and rapidly available KO models to both research institutions and pharmaceutical corporations. Read More >
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Entry Tips for the Taconic-Cyagen Custom Animal Model Awards (CAMA) Grant Competition
Oct 02, 2020
The goal of the Taconic-Cyagen Cyagen Animal Model Awards (CAMA) is to support high-value biomedical research projects that utilize mouse or rat. This competition will offer a range of grant awards, collectively valued at over $77,350, that will help fund custom animal model (CAM) projects that will bring the most impact to their respective research fields. Read More >
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Research Trend
Rats - The Animal Model that is Revitalizing Medical Research
Sep 09, 2020
Establishing appropriate animal models of disease is of vital importance in basic medical research – for which, rats and mice have become the animals of choice. Mice are considered the most important model animal for analyzing human gene functions due to its small size, low operational costs, relatively stable embryonic cells, and pliability for various genetic manipulations and gene editing. Read More >
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COVID-19
ACE2 Catalog Models – Humanized, Conditional Knockin, and Knockout Mice
Aug 27, 2020
As the leading provider of custom animal model generation services, Cyagen’s R&D team began developing mouse models for studying the novel coronavirus in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More >
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Research Trend
Latest Discovery
RALY Gene Feature: New Implications in Metabolism and Cholesterogenesis
Aug 18, 2020
The heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) family are multifunctional complexes of RNA and protein present in the cell nucleus that serve critical roles in gene regulation. Multiple lines of evidence have linked hnRNP abnormalities as key pathobiological drivers of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Read More >
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Rare Disease Grant Awards Announced for BeHEARD Challenge
Aug 11, 2020
Cyagen Biosciences recently announced our participation as a technology award sponsor for the 2019-2020 BeHEARD Rare Disease Science Challenge, hosted by the Rare Genomics Institute. Now that the competition has concluded, we are excited to release details regarding the winners of the technology awards and the rare disease studies they plan to pursue with their prizes. Read More >
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Cyagen’s Checklist for Your Return to the Lab
Jul 31, 2020
As scientists around the world continue to grapple with the implications of COVID-19 on their research, Cyagen remains available to assist with all your needs for in vivo model services and products. Our expert support team understands that researchers worldwide are up against many different barriers in starting their projects. Read More >