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… previously known class 2 CRISPR enzymes that are typically 950—1400 aa. They were initially identified by searching for Cas12d homologs across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It … out that some of these were shorter than the typical Cas12d proteins and were also found next to cas1 genes. Further …

… access to the whole sigma catalog of precursors in their 12C form. You can feed those and look for incorporation in … would grow up our bacteria on 13C methane or methanol, feed 12C methionine, and we were able to pull out the quorum … source and the other with 13C carbon source plus your 12C precursor. You look for a shift of four. Boom. It works …

… from metagenomes. mSystems 9:e00888-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00888-24 Coclet, C., Sorensen, P.O., Karaoz, U. … RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell 185, 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.023 Roux, S., … in Microbiology. 30, 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.05.003 Berg, M. et al. (2021) Host population diversity as a …

… 10 to the negative 9th. Picomolar, 10 to the negative 12th. DAN: Yeah. So very-- BETSY PARKINSON: Very, very-- … what we were able to do is we-- from just an initial set of 500 of these PBP thioesterases, we were actually able to … grad student or undergrad, can go and actually have their 15 minute blocks. And so they're not true-- they're not …

… teach microbiology – “microbiology” – it’s almost 95% bacteria! What happened to all the other microbes? So … I don’t know, is 30 megabases? Basidiomyetes might get to 50. Some of them go to over 100. There. That can be the … Like, ironically, yeast, which has a small genome has 15 chromosomes. Where Aspergillus has eight chromosomes. It …

… has increased in a lot of fields– still not, probably, 50-50 in things like physics and maths– but there’s actually … women get selected each year as a cohort to experience this 12-months leadership program, of which the last month is in …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … plant disease, according to Garbelotto. In one year alone, 500 people participated in SOD Blitz activity, and these … 1;313(5791):1261-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1128796 Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight …