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… addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using … cover of ACS Synthetic Biology. (Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab) For example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer …

… ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive environmental and … up with him recently. “So, there’s going to be a need for these biofuels and that’s a good niche market for … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these … like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. Meanwhile, environmental viruses are constantly …

… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across the global ocean. … temperature to rise. “What needs to be done is reducing the production of CO2 — this is the first and foremost important … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …