...about their research, their job hunts, and their tips for experiments. We’ve also loved helping to answer... Plasmids 101 series and by responding to your comments. Additionally we’ve seen what topics are of interest...

...fueled by highly caffeinated grad students and postdocs, which accounts for many, many lattes and espressos...infiltration of CRISPR-Cas tools into neuroscience experiments. Speaking of CRISPRs, we were excited to have...

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...At Addgene, over 120 labs have deposited CRISPR reagents, including many gRNA-containing plasmids (McDade...which has already been shown to work in CRISPR experiments. Addgene’s dedication to resource sharing has...you, for example, prefer to deliver your CRISPR components as RNPs (ribonucleoproteins) and therefore usually...

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