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RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science … regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are … three distinct RNA polymerases; in bacteria there is only one type of RNA polymerase responsible for each gene. These …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely … harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … a team studying microbial populations in oxygen minimum zones identified SAR11 bacteria as initiators of nitrogen …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert … collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

… 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group … ASM Microbe Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif.  Roux is also one of the lead organizers of the Viral EcoGenomics & …

… but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured … at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the … great success. “For the most difficult challenges, no one agency has enough to go for it alone,” he said. A Larger …

… we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since …

… single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … a single cell and isolating it for analysis. Once it’s alone, the cell breaks apart and its DNA is copied millions of …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating …   Topics will include:  environmental microbiomes biodesign and synthetic biology AI/ML-enabled laboratory automation, …