New England Biolabs (@nebiolabs.bsky.social)

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:42 PM

As part of the two-day celebration for our Passion in Science Awards, award winners were guided through bacterial agar art creation! NEB Principal Scientist Mehmet Berkmen is always excited to share his love for microbes of all colors and shapes 🧫

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:35 PM

Our final awardee presenter is Rojelio Mejia, M.D., who won a Passion in Science Humanitarian Duty Award for the My Poverty and Parasite Nexus project, which he founded to connect parasites, poverty and more through science and advocacy.

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:50 PM

Can you imagine what it would be like to learn about chemical concepts through textile art practices? Passion in Science Arts and Creativity Award winner Anne-Frances Miller has developed courses that use natural dye to support hands-on projects!

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:34 PM

Presenting for the Passion in Science Awards, Scientific Mentorship and Advocacy Awardee Richard O'Rorke highlights The DNA Drive project and the impact of citizen science 🔬

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:21 PM

Our first Passion in Science Awardee presentation of the day! Environmental Stewardship Award Winner Chukwudi Ikegwu spotlights his conservation work in Nigeria using eDNA and bioacoustics for non-invasive amphibian biodiversity monitoring 🐸

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:24 PM

RNA-seq speed without compromise! Learn how NEBNext UltraExpress RNA can be applied to samples down to 1ng in our new technical note, "Application of NEBNext UltraExpress RNA to low-input RNA samples" https://nebiolabs.com/4xZp3pQ

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 5:53 PM

New Student Starter Pack requests are now open! First-year graduate students and first-year post-docs can get the jumpstart they need for the lab with our starter pack, containing technical references, lab supplies, and NEB swag. Learn more and see T&Cs: https://nebiolabs.com/46Qrlg2

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 12:00 PM

Today's the day! Stock up on your lab reagents and support the Monarch butterflies with US catalog sales for our Monarch Day. Learn more at www.neb.com 🦋

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:19 PM

Earlier this month, NEB hosted the 2026 Boston Phage Symposium on our Ipswich campus! We are thrilled to have supported a shared interest in phage research and great talks from four labs from MIT and @harvard.edu !

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:43 PM

END nucleases, defense systems within diverse bacteria that target bacteriophages with hypermodified DNA, are identified in a Nature Microbiology study by NEB researchers and collaborators. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-026-02407-2

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:10 PM

In our latest podcast (https://nebiolabs.com/4yJC1c3), microbiologist and virologist Dr. Paul Turner, from Yale School of Medicine, joins us to explain how bacteriophage can be used to treat and kill bacterial infections, and what the future of this technology looks like.

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:18 PM

Our Passion in Science Award winners from around the world have been notified! We're excited to share the full list of awardees: https://nebiolabs.com/4xYpdP5

Celebrating the 2026 Passion in Science Awards' WINNERS

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:00 PM

Less than two weeks left until NEB's Monarch Day! Learn more about Monarch Day and how US catalog sales can help support Monarch butterflies at www.neb.com

New England Biolabs Monarch Day, September 30, 2026

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 6:11 PM

In our latest blog, see how RNase 4 can be used to digest long mRNA molecules into oligonucleotide fragments amenable to analysis by LC-MS, capillary electrophoresis, or denaturing gel-based methods - enabling detailed assessment of mRNA therapeutic safety & content. https://nebiolabs.com/3T7Y2lS

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 5:22 PM

Considering lyophilized reagents? See an example in Microbiology Spectrum of how they can be used in a rapid & low-cost proof-of-concept workflow for HIV-1 subtype B & HCV genotype 1a molecular detection from blood samples by Public Health Agency of Canada researchers: https://nebiolabs.com/4y1VtB4

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 4:43 PM

In a Microbial Genomics paper (https://nebiolabs.com/4AaYZdJ), University of Copenhagen, NEB, and University College Cork scientists describe the quite large variation in genome composition for Pseudolactococcus laudensis strains from different habitats.

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:00 PM

Happy Labor Day! In honor of the holiday and in celebration of the many achievements American workers have contributed to the US, NEB is closed today, Sept. 7.

@nebiolabs.bsky.social Aug 31, 2026, 3:49 PM

NEB scientists showcase M. paludis Argonaute (Mpa Ago) as a programmable RNA "restriction enzyme" that can cleave mRNAs at precise, user-defined sites without the sequence constraints of CRISPR-Cas. https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/nucleic-acids/fulltext/S2162-2531(26)00154-X