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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now … funders at the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), among others. New areas of emphasis, for those …

… synthesis, and metabolomics at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy (DOE)  Mission Areas . Through this program, the DOE aims to advance genome science-based scientific research from a broad range of disciplines. Three calls fall …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published … paved the way for a longstanding collaboration between researchers at the JGI and the French National Institute for …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … this research project,” said Jonathan. “Students now have a deeper understanding of both the research process and …