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… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells … industry.” From Cell to “Soup” The work started with yeast strains engineered by Alper’s team to convert the sugar …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at … Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …