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We’re so excited to share some good news with you: with contributions from depositors around the globe, we’re now sharing over 100,000 reagents including plasmids, ready-to-use viral preps, pooled libraries, kits, and cloning grade DNA!
Originally published Aug 3, 2017 and last updated Apr 6, 2021 by Will Arnold. Introducing NGS in 2017 for all incoming plasmids was a big change for Addgene - we had used Sanger sequencing for quality control for over ten years. Now, thanks to a generous donation by the Hirsh ...
Update Apr 8, 2021: While this contest is over, we will host other contests in the future. Subscribe to the blog to stay in the know! No pranks, just fun and games this April Fool’s Day on the Addgene blog. We’ve been mostly working remotely for the last year to give our ...
Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles provide brief summaries of recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need. ...
We’re excited to welcome Julie Cicalese to the Addgene Board of Directors. Cicalese served as the Chief Human Resource Officer for Harvard Medical School. The addition of Cicalese to the Board of Directors brings human resources experience and insight to the now 13 member board ...
Are you a research technician, undergraduate or graduate student, or postdoc using fluorescent proteins in your research? Consider applying for the Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Attendance Awards. This year, we’re giving out up to five awards, each up ...
You’ve gotten the plasmid encoding your protein of interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target cells, now what? How can you tell if the protein you are so keen to study is expressing in your cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western, is one of the ...