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Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no … Rapid Prototyping of Genes and Pathways” at the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on September 1, …

… threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like threads floating delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The … the entire cell.” The JGI team then used single cell genomics to analyze five of the bacterial cells on the …

… step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and viral genomes, as well as genomes … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is …