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Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental … “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been instrumental in establishing larger-scale research projects in … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test …

… infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected … is known about the impacts of these infections on ecosystem functions. As part of efforts to characterize global … are transformed into virocells that are metabolically and functionally different from uninfected cells. Duhaime and …

… isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the … Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science … changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops in salt … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt …

… uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes … studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

… event that occured some 60 million years ago. Massive gene loss, rampant gene duplications, and even more ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic architecture with Y chromosomes in mammals: a …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia …

Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … genomes, they found a huge variety of CRISPR-Cas systems. Generally, prokaryotes use CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize … systems, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, is a powerful tool in gene editing, but many other systems exist. Investigating …