A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
...collection of plasmids for coronavirus research, including a handful of plasmids that have been in the repository... plasmids used for this study at Addgene which include a C-terminal deletion in the spike protein to improve...Plasmids deposited from Alejandro Balazs’s lab includes those for generating pseudovirus and those encoding...the widely used qPCR and antigen tests.
Labs including Jennifer Doudna’s lab and Feng Zheng’s lab had...for detection have been made openly available including those from Andrea Pauli and Julius Brennecke. ...19 diagnostic enzymes. Plasmids in this toolkit include ones for expressing MMLV reverse transcriptase ...untagged and tagged versions of SARS-CoV-2 ORFs and include plasmids that are codon optimized. Browse the collection...