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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other …

Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal … microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take the heat. …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … like goats, sheep and cows share an important talent. In their herbivorous lives, they all process loads of tough …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy … The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been … long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are increasing their yields and improving their abilities to adapt to …