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Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria …