By Kendall Morgan
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Nicola Patron is Head of Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an engineer than a biologist. Their focus at the lab is on plant-pathogen interactions, and her aim is to produce constructs and edit genomes so as to make plants, and ...
UPDATE - As of January 2020, Addgene's Europe office no longer handles customer support inquiries. The office is now focused on scientific outreach and community engagement. Information about contacting Addgene can be found on our Contact page. You’ve called. You’ve emailed. And ...
This post was contributed by Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering. Last year we started a company. Revolution Bioengineering is two responsible adults in their 30s who have quit their academic science careers in order to head to Ireland and ...
You are finishing your PhD or perhaps you have almost completed a postdoctoral position… or two. You have learned a lot. Whether you are pursuing an academic career path or moving in a nonacademic direction, there are many “transferable” skills you have developed in addition to ...
This post was updated on Dec 4, 2017. At Addgene, we continually use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) provided by NCBI. BLAST helps us compare the sequencing results of the plasmids in our repository with known reference sequences, such as full plasmid sequences ...
This post was contributed by Maaike Pols, PhD, a Developmental Editor at F1000Research. With many changes taking place in the world of science publishing, and an ever increasing number of journals and publishers to choose from, it gets very confusing for scientists writing ...
This post was contributed by Gal Haimovich of greenfluorescentblog. Be honest. Do you really know how fluorescent proteins glow? Fluorescent Proteins (FPs) were first discovered over 50 years ago, with the discovery of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), a protein from the ...
