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In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for … the study’s international team, which included scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group … develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR gRNA design tool BOOST , which provides …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett … his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will …

… “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and … other technological advancements that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial novelties to deciphering metabolic …