Volume 50 Issue 9, September 2021

Yava Jones-Hall discusses the promise and pain points of setting up a digital pathology program at a new academic institution.

Animal welfare concerns, reduced flight options and increased costs are pushing researchers to consider shipping frozen sperm and embryos rather than live mice.

Rodent grooming is an important behaviour that is commonly used to characterize preclinical models of human brain disorders. A new paper has leveraged deep learning to develop a precise, high throughput and automated grooming classifier to facilitate mechanistic neuroscience research on grooming.

In this review, the authors compare 28 freely available animal-tracking software applications, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the applications in the tracking pipeline, from video acquisition to trajectory generation and data analysis.