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… small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, … environmental samples without needing to cultivate the microbes in the lab,” noted Stephen Nayfach, the study’s … reveal a lot about the biology and diversity of uncultured microbes.” Teams of researchers worked on multiple analyses …

… expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can utilize carbon oxides, including the greenhouse … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …