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Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … author Candice Swift — verified that the fungi expressed biosynthetic gene clusters, which are “building blocks” of …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete … from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University …