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… have no extra genes hanging around, they still dedicate 20-30% of their genome to secondary metabolism. So it’s very … that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the popular news recently because a lot of soldiers in the Iraq and …

… Europe. So if there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And … all these 120 genomes, and each of them have– I don’t know– 30 gene clusters or so. So I think I spent two years only …

… the primer podcasts ( part 1 here , part 2 here , and part 3 here ), which you should be able to find earlier in the … first started out the natural product community was almost 100% bacterial. Only people working in mycotoxins worked with … on microbiomes they only talk about the bacteria. My god! 30% of our gut microbes are fungi. It’s really frustrating …

… is now at Tel Aviv University. The Cas14 proteins are ~400–700 amino acids (aa) in size, half that of previously known class 2 CRISPR enzymes that are typically 950—1400 aa. They were initially identified by searching for … the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported in part by grants from the …

… launched a concerted SOD defensive campaign beginning in 2000. In an effort to fingerprint the pathogen and trace its … All told, the disease has accounted for upwards of $30 billion in losses , including the death of tens of … 1;313(5791):1261-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1128796 Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight …

… underwater. But thankfully that worked out. And I spent 30, 40 years diving all over the world and bringing samples … And that means that you have to provide up to maybe 100 grams of the natural product. And that was, for us, very … chemistry. And I’ve studied microbiology for about 25, 30 years. And I can actually go give a talk at ASM [The …