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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it …

… 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 … oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi …

… from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with … samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but difficult to assemble and interpret. … costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between two …

… long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … call. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Can I apply as a postdoc, or do I need a faculty member as PI? A(nswer: …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are …

Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains …

… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that … manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … on a few species like Arabidopsis or rice as homology models for computational function predictions and also due …

… single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most … markers of sex enables scientists to develop molecular assays that can distinguish males and females even when …

National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, “We …