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… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … other researchers to study the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these microbes. The Impact This study …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … The relatively small size of its genome also simplifies metabolic modeling and pathway optimization for enhanced … optimized for industrial oil production. The organism uses specific chemical tags on DNA  to control which genes are …

… Leveraging decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes … in lines, as well as how structural changes connect to specific traits. They also saw long-studied traits come into … Development (USAID) also supported the work.   Publication:  Morris, G.P., Harder, A.M., Healey, A.L.  et …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under … to design more efficient microbial factories. Identifying specific genes, regulatory elements and metabolic pathways that enable that shift provides engineers …