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… of a plant, so the bacteria living on and inside the roots are protecting the plants against pathogens. So … on a system of sugar beets where bacteria on and inside the roots were protecting the sugar beets against Rhizoctonia … communities for all the bacteria that are living inside the roots. And from that we got around 800 biosynthetic gene …

Do you go after sediment? Do you go after– if there’s any water– or I guess, when you’re down there, is it something … to energy inputs. So this is– for us, that’s dripping water, percolating through the soil through leaf litter and … caves– not dry, dusty, but wet. We like to get them where water is flowing and where formations are forming so that we …

… [LAUGHTER] We were just trying to keep our head above water and find cool things. So it was a very research …

… tell.  ALISON: It could be bacterial blankets, or coats, or water bottles, in a metaphor…. DAN: Or because they’re …

… one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began … Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few degrees. Eventually The Blob … University of British Columbia was already collecting ocean water samples when The Blob started. The samples were taken …

… rapidly engineer a Clostridium strain for the production of biofuels and bioproducts from low-cost gas feedstock. For …

… thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less salt — near the surface where algae grow. … use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary Water temperatures and salinity determine how life thrives … Biology article highlights how one microalga collected from water on the ice surface handles such fluctuations. P. …

… one of those oxygen atoms from O2 ends up as a molecule of water. DAN UDWARY: Mhm. So oxygenases, they’re oxidizing … We don’t have any reactions that we’re doing in boiling water. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, OK. Do you have a– whether it’s in …

… blob of protein that’s, you know, wiggling around in the water. And they all come together into this larger structure …

… winter, so a lot of snowpack when it melted– or a lot of water when the snowpack melted went into the lake. And so … Salt Lake microorganism because we do have a lot of wastewater treatment or wastewater going into Salt Lake. And so a lot of organisms coming …