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… directions,” said Mouncey. “In this way, we can be more responsive to cross-cutting opportunities, align goals … it, provide us feedback and to help us calibrate progress toward our near- and long-term goals. And, by the way, as …
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National Laboratory, indicates metabolic pathways could be more productive outside the cell environment, which would be … enhanced their ability to redirect the carbon in the cells toward particular pathways. In this case, towards BDO and away from ethanol, an undesired product of …
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Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of … 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable agriculture and was written by JGI … for the column, Woyke wrote about the research field’s move toward characterizing the human microbiome by its genomes …
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… current and ongoing developments at the JGI and KBase toward integrative biology and hear from researchers who are …
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… historically been less of a resource to be extracted and more of an obstacle to breaking them down. Lignin is a … brick-and-mortar of a building or the human skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the microbes that … presumed. After all, they’re able to produce enzymes highly efficient at making use of those other two components, which …
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This newly discovered species of bacteria keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to … (TEM) to visualize the filaments and the cell membranes in more details. These techniques allowed him to observe novel, … it does chemosynthesis, which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is …
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… into biological diversity. You don’t have tunnel vision anymore, only seeing the microbes you can grow in the lab — … amazed.” From there, they were able to cultivate and more closely study the microorganisms that seemed mostly … necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they are inclined toward methanogenesis, at least in culture.” Another …
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… expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial …
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… understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in … ago. Massive gene loss, rampant gene duplications, and even more ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the … the resulting comparative framework can inform the efficient production of plant-based biofuels and …
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… this polar environment. This cycle suggests a reliance on photosynthesis to maintain nutrient cycling that evolved … polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, …
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… and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial …
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