Insights, technical notes, and announcements from the UID team.
From Jose Gadea's AALAS Tech Talk: why body temperature changes before visible clinical signs, what intermittent checks miss, and how home-cage monitoring makes temperature part of routine welfare assessment.
Read the article →What the ISO standards for animal RFID actually require, what they don't, and which parts you need to care about when you're picking a transponder vendor.
Read the article →UID white paper summarizing a study that demonstrated anesthesia-free RFID microchip implantation in pre-weaned mice — enabling permanent individual identification from the neonatal stage.
Read the article →Manual surgical monitoring is labor-intensive and misses nighttime data. Implantable RFID microchips offer a hands-free alternative that continuously tracks rodent temperature and activity in the home cage.
Read the article →Fordham and Columbia researchers used a UID low-frequency RFID solution to track wild rats at a Brooklyn waste recycling site, showing lab-grade identification technology works in uncontrolled field environments.
Read the article →Envigo white paper on using RFID continuous temperature monitoring to improve surgical welfare in cardiac rodent models — revealing mice lose more heat than rats and that this gap affects recovery time.
Read the article →A behavioral ecology study at a Brooklyn waste transfer station used RFID-chipped rats to document that feral cats are poor rat predators, with rats actively avoiding cats and only two kills recorded in 79 days.
Read the article →The first study to document cat-rat colony interactions found cats kill rats at a very low rate, with microchipped rats actively avoiding cats — countering the assumption that cats control urban rat populations.
Read the article →Fordham biologists are using RFID chips to track free-roaming rats at a Brooklyn waste facility, studying the 'silent language' of rat pheromone communication and how urbanization reshapes animal ecosystems.
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