Biosciences News

Biosciences Area Senior Faculty Researcher Jay Keasling and his research team have spent the past few decades engineering yeast to be tiny factories that more efficiently produce molecules that are typically found in small supply in nature. Now, they have modified yeast to make the adjuvant QS-21, an important additive to vaccines that stimulates the … Read more »

Abby Dernburg, a senior faculty scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in meiosis research.

The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Innovating Genomics to Serve the Changing Planet. Aside from aligning the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a bioeconomy, it lays out how users and the global research community will bridge fundamental knowledge gaps to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing.

Researchers have studied both sides of plant-fungi symbiosis in one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics studies to date.

Researchers have pioneered new understanding of which fungi take on certain functions at the forest floor. For the first time, they compared three different fungal guilds in a range of different locations. They sampled soils in four forest ecosystems, extracted RNA to understand gene expression, and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.