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Systems group. The award ceremony was held January 19, 2021. Learn more here in the Berkeley Lab story.   …

The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to … stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New Phytologist, researchers … such as sphagnum’s associations with methane oxidizing bacteria, nutrient uptake, and its productivity and …

… , 2022 Ke et al., CRISPR-CRAGE enables rapid activation of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria, Cell Chemical Biology , 2022 … R&D100 Award …

… called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, … guts, sediments, and anaerobic bioreactors. Aside from producing energy that the organisms can use to thrive, the … of prokaryotes and can form roughly 300 combinations of metabolites. To demonstrate the potential utility of the …

… carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives … – and how the  microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of … DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … they likely help their hosts. The Impact Meters below the Earth’s surface, within the crust, there is a vast ecosystem … compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the …