The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provides access to integrated high-throughput sequencing, DNA design and synthesis, metabolomics and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to energy and environmental challenges. Located in Berkeley, Calif., the national user facility is supported by the DOE Office of Science and operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The JGI unites the expertise at Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. On X (@jgi) and LinkedIn.
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Ok, You grab more CO2 out of the air, but allow these kind of modified organism to flourish and get out of control, taking over the world. Now, our CO2 problem is actual we know that, but in the future we might have the reverse where we won't have enough CO2 in the atmosphere , or yet again maybe a new Ice Age comes by to say hello where a rich CO2 atmosphere might help us survive. Not to mention - we don't know what the effect will be on land or water ecosystems. We might be replacing something that worked since the beginning with something that might destroy us or our environment. People should start thinking longer term here.
March 21 is International Day of Forests and as a reminder of how important #trees are, we're revisiting a video about one of our poplar projects featuring Gerry Tuskan, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher who also holds an appointment with us. For more information about the project, go to jgi.doe.gov/signatures-selection-inscribed-poplar-genomes/. #carboncycle #bioenergy #genomics For more information about the United Nations' International Day of Forests, check out bit.ly/1CJ8uBD #IntlForestDay
Oxygen is crucial to marine life but in the past 50 years, oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) have expanded due to #climatechange and increased waste run-off from farms and cities. From water samples collected in a seasonally oxygen-starved inlet (see video), we studied #virus - #bacteria interactions with collaborators at The University of Arizona and The University of British Columbia to understand how these relationships affect the #carboncycle , the #nitrogen cycle, and the #sulfur cycle, and reported our findings in eLife Sciences. Read the full story in jgi.doe.gov/decoding-virus-host-interactions-in-oxygen-starved-ocean/
Muy interesante este video!!!....es facinante que esten lagos bajo el hielo antartico.... Very interesting the video!!!! It is fascinating that there are lakes and life under ice...
What needs to happen is--the masses need literally to get their hands on this technology to be able to appreciate it. There is a point where reading about sequencing strategy or seeing other people doing it does not make the material any more meaningful. How are you to appreciate the seemingly arbitrary steps that are taken without understanding the motives? You can only understand the motives by trying to reproduce results by yourself--PERIOD.
