Rachel is a Science Communications Specialist at Addgene. She manages the blog and social media.
Neuromodulators like dopamine and norepinephrine have important functions in the brain but have been difficult to study without biosensors to directly visualize their activity. In 2019, the first generation of norepinephrine sensors was developed, named GRABNE, which helped ...
It's December, and that means it's officially the start of Addgene's winter holiday celebrations! We're kicking it off by sharing all the incredible guest posts and stories featured in our blog in 2023. Some of these were written by guest authors, while others chose to work with ...
Getting ready for Society for Neuroscience Conference 2023? So are we! Come say hi to us at Addgene's booth, #3422, in the nonprofits section.
Looking for a fast and inexpensive way to determine your antibody's purity? Check out our latest protocol video, "Coomassie Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies."
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) exists to prevent substances in the blood, like proteins and viruses, from crossing into the brain. While helpful from a biological standpoint, it makes delivering AAVs to the brain difficult. Traditionally, delivery is achieved through the use of ...
We are excited to announce the fourth edition of our popular eBook, Plasmids 101, is now available!
Viruses are simple – a genome packaged in a protein shell (Taylor, 2014). They’re so simple that we can’t even decide if they’re alive or not. Yet these simple, small particles have quite the outsized impact – and not just on the disease front.
If you’ve ever used Golden Gate Assembly for cloning, you might be familiar with the rules of thumb for designing your overhang sets. But are those rules the best way to design GGA overhang sets, particularly for high-complexity reactions?
