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… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has …

… to technical limitations and the sheer complexity of plant genomes. Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification … advancement holds the potential to expand opportunities for bioenergy and bioengineering applications. “We worked … Berkeley National Laboratory. “These proteins’ binding preferences are very, very stable over long evolutionary …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles of … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

… designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for computational analysis and interpretation of sequence data. IMG/M is a web-based platform that provides access to the wealth of public microbiome …

… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can … SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated …

… on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

… Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work …

… McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put …