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… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system that …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. … visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just 0.2% of the ocean floor, these meadows are … is unique in that there are not many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can …

… of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has … crop yield, and developing a platform for building composite materials. Before joining the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the … to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of …