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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to … Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global … infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is …

… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … proteins, many linked to key functions such as virion structure and extrusion, and DNA replication and …

… of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … industry. I really liked the fairly flat organizational structure, and found everyone to be welcoming and helpful. …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in … environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added … with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell structure into a cell-free system. The work complements …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project … Igor Grigoriev is the Fungal & Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn …