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… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … environments — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in …

… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is … hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers … Foundry researchers then performed imaging analyses, using several microscopy techniques to confirm that the …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few … Science Program . And the work is part of a  larger CSP Functional Genomics proposal to understand terpene  … a DOE Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program (JGI-CSP) grant (CSP2568 to P.Z., ES and AH), and by a …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically characterized at UC Berkeley and … Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … of a new family of Cas proteins, named Cas14. Using these sequences as a starting point, JGI data …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital … method could also improve genome recovery in microbiome studies, these scientists (now at Stanford University) …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … models and their close relatives across the fungal tree of life, enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … This work was conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… design and synthesis superpower. Through a series of case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked with … through the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to … Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in September 2021. Robinson stressed that the DNA Synthesis Science …

… and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … team sheds light on the range of archaeal symbiotic lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a …