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Thanks to Steve Owens, Katherine Tolley, Griffin Tighe, and Anne Mazzola for visiting Addgene on Friday! We appreciated the chance to share our work and talk about the role organizations like Addgene play in supporting science and innovation in Massachusetts.
Graphic showing available AAV serotypes for Packaged on Request (AAV1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, rg) with AAV9 highlighted as new.
The go-to serotype for CNS + cardiac delivery is now available through Addgene's AAV Packaged on Request service, backed by the same stringent QC standards as our in-stock viral preparations. What cargo do you need in AAV9? https://twp.ai/4ivYPv
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The image is an infographic titled "Open science creates economic value through reuse at scale," by PLOS. It highlights four benefits of reuse: prevents duplication of effort, accelerates research processes, compounds benefits through network effects, and enables reuse across sectors. The left side features a flowchart illustrating reuse from a single research output. On the right, a text box emphasizes that open science can enhance productivity and strengthen long-term performance when done correctly. A final note states, "Publishing is a vital part of the infrastructure that enables reuse at scale.
Open Science isn’t just a values choice. It’s an economic one.
We are sharing a new independent report by @technopolis-group.com on the economic benefits of #OpenScience and what drives value when research outputs are designed for reuse at scale: plos.io/4rdAxCY
🧬💡 OptoLoop: An optogenetic tool to probe the functional role of genome organization - thanks for sharing, @mdstor.bsky.social!
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Plasmids are available now! "A universal protein ladder for standardisation of diverse FRET assays"
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Good question! Some of our kits do have that option in the "Protocols & Resources" tab on the website. If the sequence files are not there - you can email us at help@addgene.org to get one.
Example - www.addgene.org/kits/roth-gp...
Are your houseplants crying out for help? Mine are fine, thanks. 😝 But a team at @danforthcenter.bsky.social wants crops to be able to warn their growers when something isn't right. Check out their approach (and their plasmids!) in this post:
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Just released! Fluorescent Protein Libraries from the Plesa Lab. Benchmarking protein expression, developing imaging tools, fluorescent protein engineering, and more.
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Last week to register for the R4E webinar on designing effective posters!
www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-web...
Thank-you to @addgene.bsky.social for sponsorship! #AcademicSky #EduSky #neuroskyence
Infographic showing the four step AAV Packaged on Request process: request plasmid, serotype, and volume; production and quality control; then shipment from Addgene.
Need an AAV that isn’t available in-stock? Choose your preferred cargo, serotype, and volume with Addgene's Packaged on Request service. Now expanded to include AAV9, with PHP.eB coming soon. https://twp.ai/4ivYPp
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Talk about multitasking. Sentinel plants developed at @danforthcenter.bsky.social may one day not only grow our food, but also act as living biosensors to report on the conditions of their own fields. 🌱🌱🌱
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Promotional graphic announcing “AAV Packaged on Request – AAV9 now available!” with illustrated tubes and Addgene logo.
AAV9 is now available through Addgene's Packaged on Request service. With 4,000+ eligible cargo plasmids available, what would you like packaged in AAV9 for your next experiment?
Learn more: https://twp.ai/4ivYPg
Interested in making lamin B1 glow?
Explore the Allen Institute's plasmids for fluorescently tagging key structural proteins in human cell lines:
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Find #IPI's new Neurexin and Neuroligin antibodies along with extensive application data here:
www.addgene.org/antibodies/p...
We’re thrilled to help the Patriarchi Lab share their new norepinephrine sensors!
Find the plasmids expressing nLightG2 and nLightR2 here:
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We’re excited to expand access to genetic engineering tools for plants, this time with a focus on the early land plant model Marchantia 🌱
Thank you to the Haseloff lab for depositing this kit with us!
Learn how to design effective posters for scientific presentations at the next R4E webinar, details here: www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-web...
Thank-you to @addgene.bsky.social for sponsorship! #AcademicSky #EduSky #neuroskyence
Only smiles in the tissue culture room from now on 🙂
Find the TK4 plasmids from the Wernig lab here:
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Soon, things are heating up! 🔥
24.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sharing speeds science. Thanks for depositing and trusting us with your tools!
23.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out the plasmids for pIGLET, a reproducible and efficient approach to generate zebrafish transgenic lines using site-specific recombination!
23.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Exciting new tool for the study of mitochondrial metabolism! Thank you @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social for sharing your plasmids.
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Design–build–test–learn! These plasmids from the Santos-Moreno Lab help students learn Synthetic Biology through hands-on laboratory experiments 🙌
Check them out here 👉 www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
Apparently today is "Fresh Plasmid Friday", and we love it! 🧬 Get one step closer to a homemade nuclease/Benzonase here:
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(Featuring a bonus plasmid from @carrowsm.bsky.social)
New antibodies available from our friends at IPI! Perfect for studying the mysteries of the synaptic cleft 🧠 Find them here:
www.addgene.org/antibodies/p...
Find the hot-off-the-press plasmids here!
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Hot Plasmids are here! We've got photostable mScarlet3 variants from @zhifei-fu0326.bsky.social and Pingyong Xu labs, improved genome-wide CRISPR knockout libraries from John Doench and David Root, the latest antibodies from @ipiproteins.bsky.social, and more:
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Promotional graphic announcing “AAV Packaged on Request – Coming Soon: AAV9” with illustrated tubes and Addgene logo.
AAV9 is coming soon to our Packaged on Request options!
Known for its broad tropism and widely used in neuroscience + gene therapy, AAV9 gives you more flexibility to design and scale experiments.
Be the first to know when it’s live — sign up for Product & Service Updates: https://twp.ai/4iwER5
Another round of Hot Plasmids, coming right up! Read the blog to learn about our new-and-improved AAV packaging plasmids, a cellular time capsule, E. coli recoded to use a single stop codon, and more!
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Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is Tom20 - illuminating the powerhouse of the cell! 🧫
Our stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery.
📦 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social and @addgene.bsky.social.
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