From Mechanism to Medicine: What Drugs That Reached the Clinic Have in Common — and What Held Others Back

What 2,500+ studies reveal about the relationship between in vivo data quality and translational success – and what it means for the next generation of…

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Polyagonist Therapies in Obesity: A systems-level case study enabled by continuous in vivo phenotyping

Introduction  Obesity and type 2 diabetes are not single-pathway diseases. They emerge from a complex disruption of whole-body energy homeostasis involving the gut, brain, pancreas,…

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Learn how cage-level humidity and temperature shape thermogenesis, energy expenditure and metabolic outcomes in rodent studies. Real data, mechanisms and insights.

Micro-Environmental Humidity and Temperature in Rodent Metabolic Research

by Pierre-Louis Ruffault, PhD Cage-level humidity and temperature in rodent metabolic research play a critical yet often underestimated role in shaping thermogenesis, energy expenditure, and…

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Comparison diagram: classical single-session cognitive testing in isolated novel apparatus versus longitudinal home-cage testing in group-housed mice Funnel diagram showing over 400 Alzheimer's drug compounds tested in mice narrowing to fewer than 5 with human clinical efficacy

Why Alzheimer's Mouse Models Show Cognitive Rescue That Doesn't Translate

Over 400 drugs have rescued cognition in Alzheimer’s mouse models. Fewer than 5 have shown efficacy in humans (Langness et al., 2025). That gap is…

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IntelliCage automated home-cage behavioral testing system with group-housed mice and RFID-equipped operant conditioning corners

8 Drug Classes Tested in IntelliCage: What Group-housed Cognitive Phenotyping Revealed that Standard Tests Missed

IntelliCage is an automated home-cage behavioral testing system developed by TSE Systems. It enables continuous cognitive phenotyping of group-housed rodents using RFID individual identification and…

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LinkedIn post by TSE Systems about behavioral phenotyping. Image shows gloved hands holding a pipette over a sample in a laboratory setting. Text reads: 'The Best Data Comes From Animals That Don't Know They're Being Tested' with subtitle 'A principle for behavioral phenotyping that changes what you measure.' Cyan 'Best Practices' badge in top right corner

How Handling Stress Contaminates Behavioral Data and What to do Instead

There is a confounder in almost every behavioral neuroscience study that nobody mentioned  in the methods section. Handling stress. The moment you pick up an…

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BonnBrain 2026

BonnBrain 2026

We are excited to share that we will participate in BonnBrain 2026 – From Genes to Circuits and Behavior, taking place March 23–25, 2026 at…

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American Physiology Summit 2025

Meet us at booth #1314 in American Physiology Summit from April 24-27 in Baltimore. Held annually by the American Physiological Society (APS), the Summit convenes…

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Fens Forum 2026

Join TSE Systems at booth booth #98 and thousands of neuroscientists in Barcelona from 6–10 July 2026 for Europe’s premier international neuroscience meeting. By submitting your abstract,…

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