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… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director … Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … used IMG because the database already contains metagenome datasets from a variety of environments, as well as tools … the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …

… just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … varieties that have high productivity across a range of environments is becoming increasingly important for food, … at three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs)—the  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) , the  Center for …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, …

… in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. … a scientist with joint appointments at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …