By Rachel Leeson
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As a student at Northeastern University, you are expected to spend at least one semester (the majority spend two to three) working in your chosen field. This cooperative education experience (co-op) is what has brought me, a second year bioengineering student, to Addgene. I am ...
Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles provide brief summaries of recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need. If ...
Did you catch our April AAV webinar with Tim Miles, PhD, Director of the CLOVER Center at CalTech? If so, you may have submitted a question that didn’t get answered live - but he kindly took some time to address all your unanswered questions via text! (well, maybe not all of ...
The weather is finally warming up in Boston and that means summer is right around the corner. Here at Addgene, we’re always inspired by the new seasons, so we've made some big summer plans this year!
Many, many techniques are available to assess protein-protein interactions. One popular approach is to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent protein (FP) and measure the signal produced when the candidate proteins’ interaction brings the pieces of the FP ...
It is a well known fact if a multicopy variant of a gene exists, there must be assays that researchers can use to quantify said copies. They do so using copy number variation (CNV) assays. There are several varieties of these, but in this blog post, we're going to focus on ...
I love Addgene's new Antibody Guide and not just because I helped create it. But while antibodies, as the OG (as the kids say) affinity reagents deserved to be celebrated, there are many other amazing affinity reagents we just didn't have the space to give proper credit to. ...