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A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning … synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … three from each of the common bean’s two points of origin in Central and South America.   “Technology was … One important improvement to the bean spawned from this original research is the “slow-darkening” trait. …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … of its genetic complexities will illuminate the evolutionary history of a pivotal plant as well as the … and annotations for 35 species representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life. …

… technology described by the Nobel Foundation as having “a revolutionary impact on the life sciences.” Building upon … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V … doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. Wright AV et al. A Functional Mini-Integrase in a Two-Protein-type V-C CRISPR …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … but also the ability to understand the complicated evolutionary history of strawberry in such detail is … Session mentioned that the analysis for determining the evolutionary history of strawberries wasn’t completely …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of … of switchgrass across the garden sites depended on the origin or collection location of the individual switchgrass …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested the screen … those that are in low abundances—and their functional roles in their community. This study shows how …