ISO 11784 / 11785, explained for people who actually have to ship a study
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.
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Notes from the Lab and the Field
Insights, technical notes, and announcements from the UID team.
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White Paper: Microchip Implantation in Pre-Weaned Mice
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.
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Top 3 Benefits of RFID Microchips for Monitoring Your Surgical Studies
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.
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Fordham and Columbia Researchers Take Rat Research Outside the Lab with RFID
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.
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White Paper: Enhancing Animal Welfare and Surgical Monitoring in Rodent Models
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.
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Cats Are Bad at Catching Rats — But Feast on Other Animals
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.
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In the Battle of Cats vs. Rats, the Rats Are Winning
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.
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What Scientists Can Learn from New York City's Urban Rats
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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