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David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

The team has three subgroups: Synthetic Biology Lab : a user science group dedicated to user project design, assembly, and quality control Strain … DNA constructs:  Individually arrayed constructs, up to ~150 Kb in length  Pooled libraries such as sgRNA, promoter …

… allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? … an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep into more than 100 algal genomes, … genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved …

… between.” To find an explanation, his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at Berkeley Lab. Over the … described the early efforts in his keynote talk at JGI’s 2011 Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting: “What we …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly available metagenome data …

… other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to …

… involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North … Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that require cleanup and long-term …

… were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play …

Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …