Ashley Waldron is a Senior Scientist at Addgene. She loves helping researchers from around the world find, share, and learn about new tools and resources.
While the antibodies present throughout our bodies carry out plenty of roles just the way they are, the research antibodies in your refrigerator often need a little help to be useful. Mainly because, well, antibodies are kind of hard to see. To solve this issue, researchers ...
Fighting with antibodies to produce immunohistochemistry images that are crisp, bright, and lacking in non-specific staining can be a challenge in the best of cases. But it can be particularly challenging when your only antibody option is from the same species as your tissue ...
Expansion Microscopy (ExM) promises an easier, more accessible way to image biological features previously only visible via techniques like super-resolution microscopy or electron microscopy. Since its introduction in 2015 by the Boyden Lab, ExM has been steadily growing in ...
Do you ever wonder about the origins of some of the common techniques or tools you use in the lab? Take for instance, the commonly used Myc-tag. Who first started using it in protein tagging experiments? Why Myc? When did the commonly used anti-c-Myc [9E10] antibody come into ...
A few months ago, we shared an introduction to immunofluorescence (IF) - a common method for visualizing molecules of interest within a cell or tissue. In that introduction, we broke down the method into six general steps and outlined the considerations to be made during each ...
Your new antibody has arrived, hooray! Before you jump straight into the exciting new experiments that you’ve been planning, it is a good idea to pause and make sure that your antibody has been appropriately validated so that you can have confidence in your results. But what is ...
A 2017 survey found that many researchers feel they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene, we've set out to fill this gap by both highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering advice on ...
Immunofluorescence (IF), is an immunoassay that brings to light the cellular world. The technique allows you to ask questions like: “Where does my protein of interest live within a cell,” “Does this disease change the architecture of my cells,” or “How does this mutation impact ...
