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… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Emily G. Aguirre, Shauna M. Bennett, Laura Bogar, Michael Borg, Rory … in the October 2026 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  various proposal calls here. …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to … The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer … to snip — but not all guides are effective. To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes … to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program … National Natural Science Foundation of China (31590821, 31561123001, 31500502, 41871044), National Key Research and …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in … and so one of the things that I think is so special about this collaboration is that we’re doing work in yeast, … (BDO). To do so, the yeasts received fine-tuning of gene expression through genetic rewiring with CRISPR-Cas9 …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of … organisms (symbionts) are transmitted between host generations, researchers investigated the role that bacteria … and a part of the oil-producing Mucoromycotina group, about which little is known. The Cornell team cultivated and …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies … developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. … The Impact The initial analysis highlights abundances of gene annotations that provide insights into the nutrients …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. … grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two complete genomes from varieties that diverged … adaptation and tolerance to stressors such as drought. This information can be applied toward improving crop yields in …

… 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation … foster a diverse future workforce in science. To learn more about each intern’s experience during their internship, …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than … events.  Looking ahead, scientists can use this information to assess what specific traits make older … This study was supported by a PhD scholarship from the China Scholarship … of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Field sampling was supported by the National Science …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …