Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

This limitation in turn fueled demand for smaller, affordable and scalable automated cages. In response, Tecniplast, an Italian company that specializes in automated mouse cages, introduced the ...

Infra-red beams are projected at 0.5" spacing across the cage on 2 levels. During movement, the beams are broken by the mouse, and this sends signals to the central computer. The beams can detect ...