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… ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive environmental and … up with him recently. “So, there’s going to be a need for these biofuels and that’s a good niche market for … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using … cover of ACS Synthetic Biology. (Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab) For example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these … like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. Meanwhile, environmental viruses are constantly …

… -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems … water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook … datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale production of biofuels and bioproducts. At NREL, Luke Dahlin …

… on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew Nelson of the Boyce … tolerant shrub. Melissa Roth of the University of California, Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid production. In their approved proposal, Frederick Colwell of …