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A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … ( 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, …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … viruses are likely to infect, and (iii) identifying the genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their …