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… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … a team of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s …

Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …