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A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to … produced in response to hardship or competition. They make up the foundation for a slew of vital products in …

Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the … that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and … to both expertise and infrastructure to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and infrastructure for microbiome data science, and the development of new … System Biology Knowledgebase … National Microbiome Data Collaborative …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … an affiliate scientist at Berkeley Lab. Moreover, follow-up meetings, agreements on exchange of materials and samples …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … microbial DNA is manually separated into a few different groups based on its density — DNA containing isotopes is …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … of Española, the Santa Clara Pueblo and its nearby rural populations rely heavily on groundwater as their only source …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. … three or more genome copies from additional parents or duplication, also known as “polyploidy,” is common among … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature …