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… Q:  Does NEON have or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at …

… Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, … , the scientists thus set out to identify which sgRNA sequences were reliable. In an elegant, quantitative screen, …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The …