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Rachel Leeson

Rachel is a Science Communications Specialist at Addgene. She manages the blog and social media.

Blog articles by Rachel Leeson

Antibodies

Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

Rachel Leeson January 11, 2022

If you work in a lab that regularly does immunoimaging, there’s likely a large collection of antibodies in your lab. Perhaps you’re even in that mythical place where antibodies are well-organized, documented, and easy to find (though we might need to see it to believe it.) As ...

A schematic showing the change in epitope availability after denaturing.
CRISPR

The 12 Days of CRISPR: 2021

Rachel Leeson December 28, 2021

One of our favorite holiday traditions is our annual Twelve Days of CRISPR campaign! But if you missed our tweets featuring the best of CRISPR in 2021 and useful resources, fear not! You can find all of them here.

Antibodies

Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

Rachel Leeson December 21, 2021

If you’ve been following our antibody blog posts, then you likely already have a good idea of the basics of immunoimaging. A scientist conjugates an antibody with a signaling molecule, the antibody binds to a protein, and then voila! Wherever your protein of interest is, a ...

graphic representation of the direct approach versus the indirect approach.
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