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… longer-term body of work, the experience helped to solidify Lawrence’s interest in pursuing bioinformatics and … PhD dissertation defense presentations and beyond. In 2018, a friend of his wife’s passed along an open postdoc … your point across as quickly as possible,” he said. After years of practice presenting his science and learning what …
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… ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined …
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… and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that … contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic … aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were …
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… of the common bean. That work was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a … a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … iron content and have a longer shelf-life — up to four years. Work is now underway to transfer the trait into other …
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Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though …
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… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, … oxidation metabolisms. They also identified a set of 38 marker genes that serve as a core set of genes present in …
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… databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called … 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to … approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the 56,868 microbial genomes and 2,249 of the 6,412 (35 percent) …
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… the project. Also my area of expertise over the past couple years is a little bit different from what I did during the …
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Fund (FWF, P23117-B17, P25111-B22, P26392-B20, and I1628-B22), the JGI (CSP 605), the German Research Foundation … Union (FP7-People-2013-CIG, Grant No PCIG14-GA-2013-630188 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant No 660280), and the …
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… light, transport molecules and regulate reactions. Identifying these proteins and then figuring out what they are … set out to tackle some of these genes, expressing and purifying the range of proteins these genes produced, to identify examples that would work well for in vitro and in vivo …
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