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Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing approach to …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in … they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then …

… high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon is a five-day coding event that offers participating …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern … in the ocean drive the biological pump that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate … microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on these advances. Over the last two decades, Stable Isotope … hundreds of stable isotope probing genome-resolved metagenomes and will be implementing new tools in KBase to …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order …