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… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing approach to … No. FA9550-14-1-0089, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and the JGI Synthesis Program under FP00005685. In …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers … of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program awarded …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of … of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF DEB-1239992 to …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land … This work was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska …