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… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, … The research teams opted to collaborate on a single study, with Matheus Carnevali and Schulz sharing co-first …

… to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE … researchers with a powerful addition to their toolkit to study gene function. As a demonstration, the researchers …