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Making High-Yielding Rice Affordable and Sustainable
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Meet an IGI Scientist: Judee Sharon
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Breakthrough Dramatically Improves Researchers’ Ability to Engineer Plants and Fungi
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Inside IGI Climate 2024 Celebrates the Institute’s Growing Focus on Climate Change Research
Tuck*, Adler* et al. reveal that the Hachiman antiphage defense complex broadly inhibits phage replication by indiscriminate DNA degradation. Mechanistic and pharmacological study indicate that this activity is stimulated by apparent loss of genome integrity. The cover image shows an origami representation of the loss of genome integrity. Hachiman was originally named after the protective Shinto deity of war and archery and this cover image draws inspiration from the rich tradition of Japanese origami.
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A Bacterial Immune System That Senses Genome Damage
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Two IGI Women in Enterprising Science Fellows Receive $1 Million Each in Seed Funding
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Improving Editing Efficiency with Degradable LNPs
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3D Shapes of Viral Proteins Point to Previously Unknown Roles
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IGI Partners with HBCU Hampton University to Sponsor Summer Research Students
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New Research Uncovers Humans’ Closest Microbial Relatives
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IGI Researchers Discover New CRISPR Enzymes Using a Clever Search of AI Structural Databases
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Plant Biologist Venkatesan Sundaresan Wins 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture
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IGI’s Women in Enterprising Science Program Announces its 2024 Fellows
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The Cow Burp Problem: How CRISPR is Tackling Methane Emissions
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Getting CRISPR to the Clinic — And How It Can Go Faster