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… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers … of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Molecular Foundry – both located at … that make HAp. JGI researchers engineered a yeast strain that mimics the osteoblasts, dubbing their organism …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of … Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and …