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… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … grams per Liter per hour,” Jewett said. “From the academic perspective we’re able to be in this range in the absence of …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) … waiting to be unearthed in sequencing and analyzing uncultivated microbes. Summary The CRISPR-Cas system is an …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of …