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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … if the gene is actually essential. Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the scientists thus set out to …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure as well as … The NMDC seeks to connect and engage the microbiome community to unlock new possibilities in microbiome data …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … The JGI sequenced the shrub willows through the  Community Science Program , using long-read sequencing to …