As co-founder Melina Fan, PhD, transitions to Chief Scientific Advisor, we reflect on the problem she set out to solve 20 years ago, the community she helped build, and where she and Addgene go next.
Check us out! This week Addgene rolled out our new brand identity, and we’re feeling sharp. We’re so excited to show you what we’ve been working on.
As 2025 closed, we received a request that perfectly embodies why Addgene exists: a researcher in Laos needed a unique set of plasmids to advance their research. Thanks to five different labs across the U.S. who deposited their plasmids with Addgene to share with the rest of the ...
We all know the timeline for publishing research papers can be long and unpredictable. Fortunately, you can submit plasmids at any point in that process and we provide an option to keep your deposit on hold from public access until the article is published. This policy gives us ...
The recent sweeping cuts to science funding, limitations to facilities and indirect costs, and increased tariffs present an unprecedented challenge to the scientific research ecosystem, not just in the United States but around the world. As an organization that directly ...
If you're an international researcher who uses plasmids containing genes from rabies and vesicular stomatitis virus, you may have noticed it’s been easier to order these plasmids. This is because in 2024 certain export control exceptions were made by the US Bureau of Industry ...
AAV Packaged on Request, an expansion of our viral vectors service, has officially launched! As of January 2025, you can request any of over 3,000 eligible AAV cargo plasmids in the Addgene repository to be packaged in your choice of five different serotypes. Update: As of ...
Addgene is ending 2024 with big plans for our future. And while we’ve been excited to share them with you, we realized our 20th anniversary was about all the amazing years behind us, as much as it as about the amazing years in front of us. So in our last celebratory moment, we ...
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