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… store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of …

… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … can do. For example, understanding virus-host dynamics in soil microbiomes could allow for more accurate ecosystem … microbial genes. Eventually, whether the goal is improving soil microbiomes for carbon capture or removing harmful …

… Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by the JGI), and the virus that infects it,  … genome evolution. TEs are the largest component of a genome sequence, accounting for 45% of the human genome and 50-80% …