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… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in …

Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA …

University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse … Sabeeha Merchant at UCLA as a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… 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 …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, including, …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers …

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 …