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… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating … , combines multiple techniques and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that …

… 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 … to be required for growth. By contrast, an initial screen using an unvetted library (with both active and inactive …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … environmental samples to help uncover the phylogenetic diversity of the human gut microbiome. By bringing their …