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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to …

… joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research … in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine … Evolution & Genomics, F1000Prime Reviewer for major journals and funding agencies and philanthropic organizations …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards … mission areas across the 6 Office of Science research programs. Among the recipients of the latest SCGSR award is … are developing cutting edge technologies to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to …

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… on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from …

Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … and they agreed, providing three articles for the journal with Du Toit as their editor. The partnership has …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … nutrient cycling, or carbon sequestration. Summary Existing programs use a variety of approaches to match a virus with a …

… they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … host dependency of Antarctic Nanohaloarchaeota   … From our partners …

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… it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the … (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published in the  Microbiome journal, broadens our understanding of the unique …