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… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all … of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … out to characterize the transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell … allowed us to pinpoint and rank biologically relevant and evolutionarily conserved genes that could be potential …

… be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Gene expression in … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or more genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA – in two …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … nutrient concentration and cell death. Immediately upon transfer, the experimental samples exhibited significant … uptake and decreased cell death.  Scientists then extracted RNA to analyze gene expression, to determine which genes are …