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1,000th Pippin Customer: Cave Scientist Extraordinaire

At the University of Akron, geology and biology professor Hazel Barton shows her students the ropes. Literally. A veteran caver, Barton combined her passion for exploring some of the most remote locations in the world with her scientific interest in … more »

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Multisubstrate Isotope Labeling and Metagenomic Analysis of Active Soil Bacterial Communities

July 2014 Authors: Y. Verastegui, J. Cheng, K. Engel, D. Kolczynski, S. Mortimer, J. Lavigne, J. Montalibet, T. Romantsov, M. Hall, B. J. McConkey, D. R. Rose, J. J. Tomashek, B. R. Scott, T. C. Charles, J. D. Neufeld Info: … more »

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Single-Step Selection of Bivalent Aptamers Validated by Comparison with SELEX Using High-Throughput Sequencing

June 2014 Authors: Robert Wilson, Christian Bourne, Roy R. Chaudhuri, Richard Gregory, John Kenny, Andrew Cossins Info: This study, conducted by researchers at the University of Liverpool, aimed at accelerating the identification of nucleic acid aptamers by finding ways to … more »

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Improved Multiple Displacement Amplification (iMDA) and Ultraclean Reagents

June 2014 Authors: S Timothy Motley, John M Picuri, Chris D Crowder, Jeremiah J Minich, Steven A Hofstadler and Mark W Eshoo Info: In this methods paper, researchers from Ibis Biosciences report a superior whole-genome amplification protocol that can be … more »

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Methylation-capture and Next-Generation Sequencing of free circulating DNA from human plasma

June 2014 Authors: Kristina Warton, Vita Lin, Tina Navin, Nicola J Armstrong, Warren Kaplan, Kevin Ying, Brian Gloss, Helena Mangs, Shalima S Nair, Neville F Hacker, Robert L Sutherland, Susan J Clark and Goli Samimi1 Info: This study from the … more »

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SimRAD: a R package for simulation-based prediction of the number of loci expected in RADseq and similar genotyping by sequencing approaches

May 2014 (epub ahead of print) Authors: Olivier Lepais and Jason T Weir Info: This article from Molecular Ecology Resources describes a new software tool designed to help scientists optimize their double-digest RADseq (ddRADseq) experiments by accurately estimating the number … more »

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Pippin Enriches for MicroRNAs in Zebrafish Transcriptome Study

Scientists from the Mayo Clinic, Institute for Systems Biology, and University of Illinois recently published a study investigating the effects of vitamin D on microRNA regulation of gene expression in zebrafish. The team used our Pippin Prep together with the … more »

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Genome Editing Shows Potential for Shrinking Repeat Expansions

Several diseases, many of them involving neurological symptoms, have been linked to expansions of trinucleotide repeat sequences. These repeat expansion disorders include Fragile X syndrome, Huntington’s disease, and various forms of epilepsy and ataxia. In Fragile X, for example, a … more »

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In the Journals: Pippin Publications

We’re pleased to see that the steady stream of publications citing the use of Pippin Prep and BluePippin as our automated DNA size selection tools help more and more users get more accurate and reproducible results. The instruments have been … more »

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Highly Specific Contractions of a Single CAG/CTG Trinucleotide Repeat by TALEN in Yeast

April 2014 Authors: Guy-Franck Richard, David Viterbo, Varun Khanna, Valentine Mosbach, Lauriane Castelain, and Bernard Dujon Info: Researchers in France used a TALEN to introduce a double-strand break in a CAG/CCTG repeat in yeast cells, finding that doing so deleted … more »

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