Brook Pyhtila is a Scientific Curator at Addgene. She received her PhD at Stanford and did her post-doctoral work at Duke. She enjoys contributing to Addgene's database and web content so that scientists can more easily do their research.
Over the past decade, scientists have developed and fine tuned many different ways to clone DNA fragments which have provided appealing alternatives to restriction enzyme cloning. These newer technologies have become more and more common, and for good reason. They offer many ...