Gene Engineering Division – DNA BANK –

• Holiday Closing Announcement (2024/12/21)
  RIKEN BRC will be closed from December 28, 2024 through January 5, 2025 due to New Year’s holidays. We will resume normal business from January 6, 2025.
  We wish you a wonderful holiday season, and all the best for the New Year!
• Our office will be closed for the establishment anniversary on October 28 (Mon.) (2024/10/18)
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2024/09/13)
  • A bicistronic cell cycle reporter, Fucci2a
• Hera BioLabs Inc. has permitted RIKEN BRC to collect, preserve and distribute the biological materials containing piggyBac® transposon (2024/07/31)
• Seeking a Division Director (Professor Level, Indefinite-term) (T24017) RIKEN BRC Integrated Developmental Engineering Division (tentative name) (2024/07/05)
• Seeking a Division Director (Professor Level, Indefinite-term) (T24015) RIKEN BRC Cell Engineering Division (Cell Bank) (2024/07/05)
• Seeking a Division Director (Professor Level, Indefinite-term) (T24016) RIKEN BRC Experimental Plant Division (2024/07/05)
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2024/06/03)
  • Common marmoset cDNA Clone MMTD
• Interview with staff working in 12 laboratories (FY2024) (2024/05/20)
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2024/02/13)
  • Monomeric Fluorescent Protein Resource, mStayGold
• Holiday Closing Announcement (2023/12/18)
  RIKEN BRC will be closed from December 29, 2023 through January 3, 2024 due to New Year’s holidays. We will resume normal business from January 4, 2024.
  We wish you a wonderful holiday season, and all the best for the New Year!
• No requirement of the Approval Forms for Venus and hKO1 (2023/11/22)
• Our office will be closed for the establishment anniversary on October 23 (Mon.) (2023/10/20)
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2023/09/01)
  • Various fluorescent proteins such as photoswitchable fluorescent protein, Kohinoor
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2023/04/28)
  • High intensity forms of luciferase and luminescent proteins from various organisms
• Announcement: Revision of Distribution Fees for Bioresources in RIKEN BRC (2023/03/17)
• Holiday Closing Announcement (2022/12/20)
  RIKEN BRC will be closed from December 29, 2022 through January 3, 2023 due to New Year’s holidays.
  We will resume normal business from January 4, 2023.
  We wish you a wonderful holiday season, and all the best for the New Year!
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2022/12/16)
  • Split-GFP probes visualizing organelle contact sites
• BRC RESOURCE NEWS (2022/10/11)
  • StayGold, highly photostable GFP
• Our office will be closed for the establishment anniversary on October 24(Mon.).
• Announcement of ANRRC 2022 ONLINE (2022/09/14)
• SARS-CoV-2 genes and COVID-19 relevant human genes Updates (2022/05/14)
• Our office will be closed for the establishment anniversary on October 25(Mon.).
• New content of the NBRP: Human pathogenic virus resource (2021/09/17)
  Details of the NBRP Human pathogenic virus resource is now available from the following webpage.
  https://nbrp.jp/resource/human-pathogenic-viruses/
• BRC 20th Anniversary (2021/07/21)
• Holiday Closing Announcement (2020/12/22)
  RIKEN BRC will be closed from December 29, 2020 through January 3, 2021 due to New Year’s holidays.
  We will resume normal business from January 4, 2021.
  We wish you a wonderful holiday season, and all the best for the New Year!
• National BioResource Project (NBRP) online forum 2020 : Introduction of all bio-resources in NBRP (2020/11/10)
• Dr. Yuichi Obata, Senior Adviser, received the IMPC Award of Excellence for 2020 (2020/11/04)
• COVID-19 related mouse, cell lines and DNA resources (2020/10/29)
• COVID-19 related mouse and DNA resources (2020/10/15)
• Call for applications for positions at RIKEN BRC Indefinite-term Research Scientist (2020/10/13)
• Our office will be closed for the establishment anniversary on October 26(Mon.) (2020/10/12)
• The development of a method for genome editing – the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 (2020/10/08 T.M.)
  • Cas9 expression/mRNA production plasmid, plasmids for evaluation of the efficiency of genome editing and Knock-in donors and tags are available. Looking forward to receiving your request.
• Distribution of CoralHue™ Fluorescent Protein Resources (2020/09/28)
• Announcement: Return Our Services to the Regular Level (2020/09/03)
• Renewal of the RIKEN BRC Website (2020/06/30)
• Announcement: Partial Resumption of Bioresource Deposition/Distribution Services at RIKEN BRC (2020/05/20)
• Notice: Continuation of the suspension of bioresource deposition/distribution services (2020/05/07)
• Notice of suspension of bioresource deposition/distribution services (2020/04/09)
• New Principle Investigator of Gene Engineering Division Appointed (2020/04/01)
• Revision of Distribution Fees for the Bioresources (2019/09/18 T.M.)
• Information to Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) (2019/04/02 T.M.)
• New Director Appointed (2019/04/01)
• Holiday Closing Announcement (2019/12/16)
• Revision of Distribution Fees for the Bioresources (2019/09/18 T.M.)
• Seeking a Principle Investigator (indefinite-term position), Gene Engineering Division (RIKEN BRC Gene Bank) (application closed) (2019/07/26 T.M.)
• The extended national holidays (2019/04/15)
• Information to Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) (2019/04/02 T.M.)
• New Director Appointed (2019/04/01)
• Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Tasuku Honjo for the 2018 Nobel Prize! (2018/10/3 T.M.)
  • The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
• Genetic resources regarding the prize are available (2018/10/3 T.M.)
  • DNA resources deposited by Dr. Honjo
  • Research tools to investigate the role of PD-1 in the mouse
  • CTLA-4 clones
• RIKEN BRC SEMINAR – AkaBLI: An innovative technology for in vivo bioluminescence imaging
• The Recommendation by Science Council of Japan: The treatment of Digital Sequence Information with respect to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol (2018/02/21 T.M.)