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… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new cotton work, and even the original cotton project was to … co-author at Texas A&M University. “This report establishes new opportunities in multiple basic and applied scientific …

… pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a … can uncover more about cellulose-degrading microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to … cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, followed by protein in vitro …

… photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell … to gain insight into the  genomes of giant viruses. In a new review, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy … approaches has yielded discovery of thousands of new giant viruses, rapidly expanding the diversity of the  …

… approach to fine-tune gene expression. They tested this new methodology in yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to … they are historically well-studied, Alper’s team discovered new gene targets to more efficiently grow on these sugars. … a single RNA piece that recognizes a particular area in the DNA, to determine which targets might benefit from an …

… able to spread quickly and establish itself in a variety of new environments.  This all started roughly 250,000 years … event, doubling all of its chromosomes.  Over time, the new and old chromosome copies begin to diverge and mutate … locations.  One group investigated changes in protein sequences, while others analyzed single point mutations …