https://uidevices.com/Technical articles and company news from UID Identification Solutions.en-ushttps://uidevices.com/articles/iso-11784-explained/https://uidevices.com/articles/iso-11784-explained/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTArticlesWhat 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.https://uidevices.com/news/allentown-partners-home-cage-monitoring/https://uidevices.com/news/allentown-partners-home-cage-monitoring/Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTNewsAllentown, LLC and UID have partnered to deliver a practical, scalable home cage monitoring solution that collects temperature and activity data continuously — including during dark phases — without requiring manual intervention.https://uidevices.com/articles/white-paper-pre-weaned-mice/https://uidevices.com/articles/white-paper-pre-weaned-mice/Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTArticlesUID white paper summarizing a study that demonstrated anesthesia-free RFID microchip implantation in pre-weaned mice — enabling permanent individual identification from the neonatal stage.https://uidevices.com/articles/rfid-microchips-surgical-studies/https://uidevices.com/articles/rfid-microchips-surgical-studies/Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTArticlesManual 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.https://uidevices.com/articles/college-rat-research-waste-recycling/https://uidevices.com/articles/college-rat-research-waste-recycling/Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTArticlesFordham 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.https://uidevices.com/news/new-vp-sales-and-marketing/https://uidevices.com/news/new-vp-sales-and-marketing/Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTNewsJosé Gadea brings 19 years of sales and marketing experience in the life science market, most recently from DURECT Corporation where he led sales operations for implantable infusion pumps used in laboratory animal research.https://uidevices.com/articles/white-paper-surgical-rodent-welfare/https://uidevices.com/articles/white-paper-surgical-rodent-welfare/Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTArticlesEnvigo 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.https://uidevices.com/articles/cats-rats-rfid-study/https://uidevices.com/articles/cats-rats-rfid-study/Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTArticlesA 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.https://uidevices.com/articles/cats-vs-rats-rats-winning/https://uidevices.com/articles/cats-vs-rats-rats-winning/Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTArticlesThe 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.https://uidevices.com/articles/nyc-urban-rat-research/https://uidevices.com/articles/nyc-urban-rat-research/Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTArticlesFordham 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.https://uidevices.com/news/envigo-livermore-expansion/https://uidevices.com/news/envigo-livermore-expansion/Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTNewsEnvigo is investing in an expansion of its surgical facility at its Livermore, California site, adding state-of-the-art RFID and software surgical tracking systems from UID to provide vital monitoring of animal models from surgery entry through customer delivery.