Celebrating One Million Plasmids Shared!
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 25, 2018, 2:39 p.m.
...a million plasmids would fill? Two weeks ago, Addgene edged passed our one million plasmids shared milestone...ending the day with 1,000,002 plasmids shipped. Reaching one million plasmids shared might have you wondering...how many plasmids leave Addgene headquarters every day. That would be an average of 673 plasmids each day...to packing and shipping. Every single day.
673 plasmids shipped daily may be easy to picture (see the ...celebratory lunch, it’s hard to picture one million plasmids. How much space would one million bacterial stabs...post, we looked at how long it takes to make one plasmid and how much time Addgene has saved researchers...Assuming 5 hours of hands-on time to make each plasmid, we would have saved 5 million hours through reagent...