The lipid producing yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica, examined with light microscopy (left) and fluorescence microscopy (right), after being stained with Nile Red to visualize the lipid droplets inside (shown here in white). (Courtesy of Hal Alper)

July 15, 2019

Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial… [Read More]

FISH of Nha-C enrichment with Hrr. lacusprofundi ACAM34-hmgA. Fluorescence micrograph shows individual Nha-C cells amongst Hrr. lacusprofundi cells. Nha-C cells labelled with a Cy5 (red fluorescence) conjugated probe; Hrr. lacusprofundi cells labelled with a Cy3 (yellow fluorescence, recolored to green to improve contrast) probe; all nucleic-acid containing cells stained with DAPI (blue fluorescence). Composite image of all three filters. Scale bars represent 2 µm. (Josh Hamm, UNSW)

July 10, 2019

Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple… [Read More]

Left to Right: Jerry Jenkins, JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz, Adam Healey and study senior author Tom Juenger of UT-Austin.

June 11, 2019

Developing Switchgrass for Biomass Production

Switchgrass community gardens help distinguish genetic bases of fitness traits from climactic influence. The Science… [Read More]

Rapid technological advances in genomics have transformed modern biology. From its inception, the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has been at the forefront of large-scale sequence-based science.

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