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neb.com is the company blog at neb.com, writing about science. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “CRISPR/Cas9 and Targeted Genome Editing: A New Era in Molecular Biology”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link neb.com for New England Biolabs product pages and feature articles that explain molecular biology techniques, such as DNA assembly and plasmid work, as sources for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- CRISPR/Cas9 and Targeted Genome Editing: A New Era in Molecular Biology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Also interesting: they contributed their technique to the BioBricks Foundation: http://bbf.openwetware.org Very exciting things coming as we get the protein expression laws down well. I can't wait to use http://mrgene.com to sequence DNA and a BioBrick Assembly kit to put it all together. http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productE0546.asp
Comment linking /nebecomm/products/productE0546.asp
on “Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria”Submitted CRISPR/Cas9 and Targeted Genome Editing: A New Era in Molecular Biology as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Pretty amazing technique. I think that's the biggest breakthrough here. This is a standard approach in molecular biology. Here is the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02867-7 Here is an explainer of this very typical technique: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/biotech-dna-tech... and something more detailed: https://www.neb.com/en-us/tools-and-resources/feature-articl... The insight the…
Comment linking /en-us/tools-and-resources/feature-articles/foundations-of-molecular-cloning-past-present-and-future
on “Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage”Submitted Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Type II Restriction Enzymes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTurnaround time is about a day, so as fast as plasmidsaurus would get back to me (I'm also using nanopore, so we're gonna essentially be the same speed, with my library prep taking time but their shipments also taking time). It is mostly cost savings. I'm working on building a plasmid synthesis company. The price of sequence verified DNA has increased, not decreased, since 2018, even when you account for inflation.…
Comment linking /en-us/products/m0251-t7-rna-polymerase
on “The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service”Something that keeps me up at night is the idea of someone a bit more amoral than usual getting enough experience with gene driver technology, and using it to push genetic modifications quickly through the human species. Don't like someone with $genetic_trait? Tune your virus to target a specific piece of DNA, and then have it remove genetic segments responsible for life critical functions (a la CRISPR CAS9). https:…
Comment linking /tools-and-resources/feature-articles/crispr-cas9-and-targeted-genome-editing-a-new-era-in-molecular-biology
on “A Way to Brew Morphine Raises Concerns Over Regulation”