By Jennifer Tsang
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🎶 “Bye bye L-arabinose drive Put your cultures in the shaker Turn the LEDs on And when you want You can just turn them off No need for any wash No need for any wash…” 🎶 - Barbara Di Ventura If you follow Barbara Di Ventura on Twitter, you might have seen the video of her ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Eleanor Wang, a Research Specialist in Patrick Hsu's lab at UC Berkeley. Most of the scientists I’ve met began doing research in their undergraduate years. We each have a unique “origin story,” but taking the first step into the world ...
When you think of antibodies, you probably think of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). mAbs have been around since 1975 thanks to the Noble prize winning work of Milstein and Köhler who developed hybridoma technology. But what about single chain fragment variables (scFvs)? scFvs ...
This post was contributed by Ignacio Amigo and María Hernández Sánchez from Crowdfight. In March 2020, while most of the world was locked down, a South African company wanted to test if a type of antibodies from an Andean mammal called alpaca could neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 ...
Would you buy and use a plasmid if it didn’t include any plasmid sequence data? Of course not. Unfortunately, the vast majority of antibodies are supplied with no sequence information, leading to problems with reproducibility and an inability to improve upon these critical ...
Creating great educational science videos is tough. Is the content accurate? Are we conveying complex ideas in the easiest way possible? Are the shots clear enough for the audience? As Addgene’s Science Video Production Specialist, I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve ...
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. ...
