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… accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches … Such proteins have been adapted for therapeutic application development by Mammoth Biosciences, one of several companies … scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: …

… genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how … saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break down the cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use …

… weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation … a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …

… on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis takes a  genomic look at Lentinula samples from … decomposers that can break down all of wood’s components — cellulose, hemicellulose, and the toughest molecule, lignin. … Specifically, many species had very similar plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs), including …

… driven his lab’s focus on guide RNA library generation and development and its applications. “I moved to UC Davis in … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. … into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development.  M. polymorpha is also among one of the …