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… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … can be used to create compounds more efficiently than one strain could on its own.  In work published in  …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … the fungus and alga, either separately or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also … found none. Instead, the partners stubbornly maintained complete autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the … “Distribution of predominant high-temperature archaeal and bacterial lineages in Yellowstone National Park,” as well as …

… been succumbing to a pathogen. This ‘“alien’” organism — one previously unseen — is, in fact, a microscopic water … trace its origins, the researchers engaged the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), with support of the US Department of … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a …

… three distinct RNA polymerases; in bacteria there is only one type of RNA polymerase responsible for each gene. These bacterial RNA polymerases are made up of a core enzyme … sets associated with functions like stress responses and cellular differentiation. The tough part is identifying the …

… of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Molecular Foundry – both located at … performing activities similar to the specialized animal cells or osteoblasts that make HAp. JGI researchers … using several microscopy techniques to confirm that the cells were producing HAp granules.  The JGI team …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … umbrella of the GEBA, the JGI is sequencing thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the … 600 genome sequences for Actinobacteria.  Woyke  was also one of three authors on a recent study that made the cover …

… methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … To acknowledge the efforts of the investigators who had done the sampling, Eloe-Fadrosh reached out to more than 200 … ( Watch this IMG webinar on Metagenome Bins to learn more.) One group mined the dataset for novel secondary metabolites …