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… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and was interested in investigating the effects of radiation … genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer. Lawrence …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over …

… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … water mold, genetically related to such aquatic species as diatoms and kelp. Dubbed Phytopthora ramorum (pronounced: … the genus in Latin translates to “plant destroyer” and it has served as just that on a catastrophic scale from Baja …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep …

… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential to efficiently degrade … powerful that they can process tough cell walls.  “The JGI was really leading the development of these approaches that …

… and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements … Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s … that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive …

… unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  Dehalococcoidia . Some  … User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has unveiled these motility tools in hot spring  …

… impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic Pacific Ocean. The Impact The microbial …

… and Uwe Ohler at   Humboldt Universität zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis … and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  recently published in the journal  …

Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the … Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … make use of it, it would change the entire landscape of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …