Effective immediately: Due to continued weather-related issues negatively impacting the safety, reliability, and cost of shipping, we are temporarily suspending international shipments of live animals. Orders may still be placed but they will not be filled until after September 1, 2024. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
Weather and high temperatures are also affecting domestic shipping so expect delays. The welfare of the animals is our top priority.
for assistance call: 1-888-673-3444
Our overall goal is to provide a center for accepting and distributing high quality, well characterized inbred, hybrid and mutant rats to investigators. To this end, the RRRC will select and import rat strains and stocks important to the biomedical research community; rederive rats to a pathogen-free state; cryopreserve gametes and embryos; perform genotyping; and infectious disease monitoring to assure the quality of the rats, and distribute live rats, cryopreserved germplasm or tissues to investigators. In addition, the RRRC performs a wide variety of fee-for-services designed to facilitate all aspects of rat-related research.
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The RRRC is located at the University of Missouri's Discovery Ridge Research Park and is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (P40 OD011062).
New RRRC Strains
LE-Tg(CAG-TdTomato)Rrrc
LE-Rosa26em1(CAG-LSL-TdTomato)Rrrc
F344-Tg(CAG-hACE2)057Bryd
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RRRC News & Events Temporary Suspension of International Shipping of Live Animals Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting (LAG-R) Guidelines Published
LE-Rosa26em1(CAG-LSL-TdTomato)Rrrc
F344-Tg(CAG-hACE2)057Bryd
COP/HsdUwmRrrc
RRRC News & Events Temporary Suspension of International Shipping of Live Animals Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting (LAG-R) Guidelines Published
The LAG-R framework (Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting) is a set of guidelines to support more complete documentation of the genetic make-up of animals of all species that are used in research, with the aim of bolstering reproducibility, reliability, and overall scientific rigor. See Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49439-y).
RRRC at Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC24)
Stop by Booth 626 in the Exhibitor Hall at the Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC24) in National Harbor/Washington DC Metro Area on March 6-10, 2024 to discuss how the RRRC can help facilitate your research.
GRCr8: A new rat reference assembly is now available.
GRCr8 (GenBank NCBI # GCA_036323735.1) is the latest version of the rat reference genome assembly. See the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) blog for more details.
Happy World Rat Day!
April 4, 2023 is World Rat Day! The RRRC would like to acknowledge the important contributions to science and medicine made possible by the use of rats in biomedical research.
Exciting Job Opportunities
The RRRC is looking to expand its team! We have positions available in colony management, data curation, cryobiology, reproductive biology, and customer service. We are also looking for individuals interested in post-doctoral training with both a service and research emphasis. Interested in learning more? Contact Dr. Elizabeth Bryda at rrrc@missouri.edu.
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