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… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field … noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 looking for  C. californicus across the California-Baja … C. californicus in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has a number of …

… in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than … enzymes, secondary metabolites, and other parts lists for biotechnology, bioenergy and biomaterials,” said Igor … with a sampling puzzle of extraordinary complexity. Beyond the sheer number of undiscovered species lies an even …

… State University, Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, Davis, and Michael Köpke of Lanzatech are the latest … studies enabled contribute to the development of bio-based products and next-generation technologies, and toward … focuses on the evolution, ecology, genomics and function of microbes and microbiomes, especially those found in …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re looking at: the role viral infection may play in other …

… Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by the … development by Mammoth Biosciences, one of several companies that Doudna has founded. Doudna’s interest in …

… the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his … taking place. I am planning to enter the Boston biotech startup scene as a computational biologist. My primary future goal is to form a startup.” …