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… advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the University of Florida, an …
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… the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are hazardous waste areas that … environmental management, contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can …
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… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … Bifidobacterium are able to carry out this metabolic feat. For both clades, then, strains are variable in their …
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… nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was … of single-cell datasets in plants and provides a foundation for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole …
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… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the Hornburg fortress had withstood all attacks – until the Battle of … Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign …
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… the genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way …
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… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s … that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other …
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… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have … structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic architecture with …
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… in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Phil McClean of North Dakota State … Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. …
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… from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … biology, omics, and big data science, machine learning for experimental science, energy conversion and water … Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Program for the characterization of biological processes was of high …
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… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … arise when different ancestral species crossbreed before genome doubling. In allopolyploids, the set of … a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to …
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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and scientific community (working with the JGI) as …
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