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… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … the JGI and UC Merced faculty focused on bioinformatics was coalescing. Lawrence applied for and was accepted as one of …
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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence … under grant N00014-15-1-2785 . JW acknowledges additional support from the National Science Foundation Graduate …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the … & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds in Proteins. ” Yu Lu : ”I really enjoyed meeting and getting to …
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… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the juicy proteins and lipids that eukaryotes are.” But according to a …
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… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is … acids are assembled, which then band together to build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes …
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… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international …
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