Addgene: The First Twenty Years
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...And when CRISPR arrived in 2012, our repository was rapidly able to support sharing of CRISPR constructs....org/guides/crispr/” — SirHamhands, responding to a request for “any suggestion for CRISPR online course...frustrated by the difficulty of accessing published plasmids from other scientists. She, Kenneth Fan, and Benjie...nonprofit that would facilitate the sharing of plasmids between scientists. The service would allow people...Addgene before we were a “labhold” name. Our first plasmid request came on September 8, 2004, for pcDNA-p160MBP... our first major repository milestone — 10,000 plasmids deposited and available — and nearly seven before...possible for scientists to both deposit and request plasmids, was a major focus of our first decade. We did...