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How does CancerTools.org make mice available to the researcher community?

CancerTools.org understands the vital role mice play in cancer research and wants to share mice as widely as possibly, whilst also ensuring good research practices are supported and the associated intellectual property is protected. To that end you can access and transfer mice through CancerTools.org in several different ways (please see the accessing a mouse FAQ for more details).

Accessing a mouse

Accessing a mouse:  Process: 
  • through our collection where the mouse is located at your institute 
  • CancerTools.org will issue an MTA for your use of the mouse 
  • from our collection through your contact at another institute 
  • CancerTools.org will NOT issue an MTA, in accordance with global standards on reducing genetic drift and reproducibility. 
  • CancerTools.org will provide you access to this mouse through the inventor or through its existing collaborations with globally renowned mouse houses. 
  • Through our collection, but you have no source of the physical material at your own institute 
  • CancerTools.org will issue an MTA for your use of the mouse. 
  • CancerTools.org will provide you access to this mouse through the inventor or through its existing collaborations with globally renowned mouse houses. 

Transferring a mouse

Transferring a mouse:  Process: 
  • Where you have generated a derivative or crossbreed of one of the mice in CancerTools.org’s collection 
  • To support out mission CancerTools.org is to make this derivative available to other researchers, so will work with you to create a product page within its collection 
  • CancerTools.org will provide you with a permission letter for the transfer of the mouse. 
  • Where you have an ongoing collaboration with a researcher at another institute and the mouse needs to be transferred for consistency in experimental conditions 
  • As long as you are willing to legally attest to this circumstance, CancerTools.org will provide you with a permission letter and your colleague with an MTA for the transfer of the mouse. 

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