Today’s preclinical studies demand more than snapshots—they demand the full picture.
Behavioral variability, treatment effects, and adverse events don’t always appear during observation windows. Yet many labs still rely on episodic measurements and retrospective analysis, missing the critical and often subtle events that signal biological relevance. JAX Envision™ changes that. Developed by The Jackson Laboratory, Envision is a digital home cage monitoring platform that transforms traditional observation into continuous, actionable data—empowering your team to make earlier, more confident decisions with greater sensitivity, translational relevance and reduction of the need for human intervention, thus enabling reduced stress to the animals.
Rigorous Phenotyping
Track individual mice using extensively validated digital measures
Streamlined Research
Simplify workflows and virtual observations
Enhanced Translational Relevance
Develop deeper understanding of disease models
Most preclinical studies rely on intermittent assessments and brief observation windows — methods that miss the subtle, early phenotypic signals that matter most. These gaps introduce risk: underpowered studies, delayed endpoints, and overlooked signals of disease progression and treatment effects that compromise research rigor, reproducibility, and translational relevance.
Developed by The Jackson Laboratory and enabled by Allentown’s Discovery™ IVC, Envision combines continuous high-resolution video, validated digital measures, and AI-powered behavior classification of behavior and physiology. It tracks individual animals in socially-housed environments, capturing digital measures across light and dark cycles, microenvironmental conditions, and study phases—with minimal human interference.
This is not just better visibility—it’s a new standard of in-cage data science, designed for precision, reproducibility, and real-time actionable insights.
Explore the key features of Envision that enable scientific insights.
Envision is more than a monitoring tool. It’s a new research workflow.
With fewer interruptions and greater granularity, your studies become more predictive, more humane, and more insightful.
Seamlessly design digital studies:
Monitor mice from anywhere:
Analyze and export behavioral and physiological data:
Download the Brochure to see how the Envision integrates into your facility.
Not all digital monitoring systems are created equal. Here’s what sets Envision apart:
Scientific validity:
Modular and extensible:
Backed by deep expertise:
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If you're still relying on observation windows—you’re missing the full picture.
Envision delivers the continuous, individualized behavioral data your studies need to move faster, make better decisions, and reduce animal use through deeper insight into study outcomes.
In this case study, explore how the Envision platform enhances sensitivity in measuring disease progression and facilitates earlier identification of end-stage disease phenotypes with minimal disturbance and manual scoring.
This white paper highlights how the JAX Envision platform enables continuous experimental monitoring with highly accurate cage-side detection and tracking of mice.
Learn more about JAX's Envision and its applications in preclinical research in this succinct brochure.