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… and Sciences. She’s an ethnobotanist and the herbarium curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants … to say it’s so awesome! For those of you want to understand more about natural products and drug discovery, or the … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … DAN: Hi, again. This is Dan, and you’re listening to the second episode of the Natural Prodcast. This is part … within, say, the sponges or other things. And we know lots more about microbiomes and symbionts that live with other …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once … sequences. Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences … the NCBI and one of the senior authors on the paper, of the uncovered viral diversity. “Although the technical …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline … first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … I know I still have much to learn, I certainly feel much more advanced in my understandings than I would be at this …

… over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental … approximately half of which was generated by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and …

… Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Program (ETOP). Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her …

… for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable researchers to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of … who consider technical feasibility and readiness to begin work.  During scientific peer review, proposals are …

… Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe … sugar polymers in macroalgae and developing the first microbial platform technologies unlocking the potential of …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces … on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically … uncultivated and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given …

… Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a more targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to …