Monthly Archives: September 2014

NIH Scientists Report New Findings in Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a scary concept, but at least there’s comfort in seeing so many great minds trying to solve the problem. Last week’s announcement that President Obama had issued an executive order for the development of a national plan … more »

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In Nature Biotech Paper, ABRF Group Reports Cross-Platform RNA-seq Findings

If there’s a group you can count on to do the detailed work of putting instruments through their paces to help scientists perform better science, it’s the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. In a new Nature Biotechnology paper, the next-gen … more »

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Illumina Workflow: Pippin for ChIP-seq

As we continue our blog series on applications that are frequently used with Pippin size selection and Illumina sequencing, we move on to ChIP-seq. One of the most popular capabilities enabled by next-gen sequencing, ChIP-seq (or chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing) is … more »

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Illumina Workflow: Pippin with Nextera

In this blog series, we’ve been looking at how Sage Science customers use their Pippin Prep and BluePippin instruments with their Illumina sequencers. Today we check out the Nextera workflow, which is designed for speedy NGS sample prep. It can … more »

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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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