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… For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … pairs to generate a matrix of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, …

… Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … to produce the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to … Rapid Prototyping of Genes and Pathways” at the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on September 1, …

… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two bacteria,  Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter … type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of …

… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Innovating Genomics to Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … and repair themselves or eliminate waste. The Impact The bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms of the microbial …