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… environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added … viability constraints. Cell extracts provide an alternative format for chemical synthesis in the absence of cell growth … finding ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of sustainable …

… to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein … to JKJ and KSH. A portion of this work was performed on a project award ( …

… and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. … with optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA barcoding … approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial communities, and understanding of …

… Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by the … UC Berkeley seeks other enzymes in the CRISPR-Cas system. For the past few years they have partnered with JGI’s …

… advancement holds the potential to expand opportunities for bioenergy and bioengineering applications. “We worked … TFs and fragmented genomic DNA, eliminating the need for living cells. This allowed researchers to map regulatory … to investigate the specific organisms and genes they know best.” …

… answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … through genetic engineering, inoviruses are used for several biotechnological applications, most notably, … with the Inoviridae. “What we’re really doing is looking for a particular gene found in all inoviruses, and then …

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… In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from … green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil …

… the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or … the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev … the study highlights the vast functional diversity of microbes by looking at protein function within them. …