Animal Research
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Building Systems, Technology Make the Vivarium More Efficient
9-11-2019Changing needs for vivariums have presented facilities managers with an array of challenges: creating more space for housing research animals within existing facilities; ensuring that the environments in which animals are kept meet guidelines set by scientific research agencies and organizations; and ensuring the spaces in which researchers conduct their experiments host well-run vivariums that contribute to, rather than inhibit, the ability to reproduce their results. Manufacturers are responding to these needs with more space-efficient caging systems, more precise and cost-effective environmental controls for animal holding rooms, and technology that can automatically track the health of animals in cages.
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Colorado State University Plans National Western Center Campus
8-8-2019Colorado State University will break ground in early 2020 on the $200 million National Western Center Campus in Denver.
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Premier BioSource Completes Swine Production Facility
8-4-2019Premier BioSource opened a 78,000-sf swine production facility in July of 2019 in Rensselaer, Ind.
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Colorado State University Breaks Ground on Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
7-26-2019Colorado State University broke ground in July of 2019 on the $22 million Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases in Fort Collins.
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The Future of Xenotransplantation—Thinking Outside the Walls
6-19-2019With demand for human donor organs historically and increasingly outpacing the available, viable supply, researchers and physicians have looked for decades at xenotransplantation—cross-species transplantation—as a possible vehicle to overcome the problem. The traditional approach to xenotransplantation, however, is an “impediment to moving transplantation forward,” asserts Karl Kraebber, director of xenotransplantation operations at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. His team believes the solution isn’t in expensive and time-consuming renovation of existing buildings. “Our more novel approach is for flexible, modular spaces, to be used for small pilot trials and then scaled up once we have partnership with our governing agencies,” he says. “We’ll take ‘fast and good’ over ‘slow and perfect’ every time. It doesn’t mean we’re cutting corners.”
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Hackensack Meridian Health Opens Center for Discovery and Innovation
6-13-2019Hackensack Meridian Health opened the Center for Discovery and Innovation in May of 2019 in Nutley, N.J.
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The Ohio State University Breaks Ground on Wooster Science Building
5-24-2019The Ohio State University broke ground in May of 2019 on the $33.5 million Wooster Science Building.
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Colorado State University Opens McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute
5-21-2019Colorado State University opened the $65 million C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute in May of 2019 in Fort Collins.
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Colorado State University Opens JBS Global Food Innovation Center
5-5-2019Colorado State University opened the $20 million JBS Global Food Innovation Center in April of 2019 in Fort Collins.
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Misericordia University Breaks Ground on Science Center Expansion
4-29-2019Misericordia University broke ground in April of 2019 on a $45 million expansion of the Henry Science Center in Dallas Township, Pa.
