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… metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover … Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both … a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell structure into a …

… have developed and continue to improve automated assembly pipelines bringing in new technologies, in particular …

… an environment. For example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes cycle nitrogen and carbon, or how freshwater … followed by weeks of tricky, laborious lab work to analyze samples from one experiment. Starting a  few years ago, … (LLNL), the Microbes Persist: Systems Biology of the Soil Microbiome  Science Focus Area (SFA), is producing …