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Written by Ashling Cannon (Commissioning Editor)

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In this issue BioTechniques, we present a virtual and augmented reality application to teach concepts of STEM education, a new approach for nonenzymatic hybridization assays as a bioanalytical method for antisense oligonucleotide quantification and an overlap extension cloning of PCR products. 

Technology News 

The root microbiome: techniques for exploration and agricultural applications 

Expert Opinion 

Chromatin immunoprecipitation and library preparation: a powerful tool to unravel the epigenome 

Reports 

Developing virtual and augmented reality applications for science, technology, engineering and math education 
Sensitive and specific quantification of antisense oligonucleotides using probe alteration-linked self-assembly reaction technology 
Overlap extension cloning of PCR products into a Gateway-compatible plasmid vector 

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