Jennifer Tsang was the Science Communications and Marketing Coordinator at Addgene and manages the blog and social media. She is particularly interested in science communication and microbiology. Follow her on twitter @jw_tsang.
We are excited to announce the recipients of this year’s Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards. Congratulations to the five winners!
We’re happy to introduce the newest member on Addgene’s Board of Directors, Bart Newland. Newland is General Counsel at Atalanta, an early-stage biotech company that is developing RNAi therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative diseases. He has earned a B.S. in microbiology and ...
Originally published Apr 30, 2020 and last updated Jul 12, 2021. What started out as a small collection of plasmids for coronavirus research, including a handful of plasmids that have been in the repository for many years, has now grown into a collection of over 2,400 plasmids, ...
Over the past several months, we’ve seen the emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants coincide with increased vaccination efforts. So, how effective are the current vaccines against the variants?
🎶 “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 ...
To deliver genes using lentiviral vectors, you need an envelope protein on the virus’s surface and a corresponding receptor in the host cell. Some of these envelope-receptor pairings are broad, allowing delivery into many cell types, while others are specific, allowing delivery ...
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!
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 lab and ...
