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… well from across the globe via their laptops or even smartphones. This year’s three-day conference featured keynote … audience down memory lane, recounting the earliest days of discovering CRISPR-Cas9, the powerful gene editing … . Assaf Vardi , Weizmann Institute of Science One cell can change large-scale processes Keynote Talk Title: …

… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the … in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” …

… novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring … well, randomly,” Kyrpides explained. “Replicating that 100 times would have been almost impossible.”  When the team was … sequences evaded classification. Researchers also tried to hone in on the function of the genes via 3D modeling, and …

… One of the JGI’s key assets is our user community, …

… step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could … only for viruses and other microbes , but for scientists. One emerging industry application of DGRs is to use them to …