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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to …

… species of algae and kept seeing what looked like mistakes by the gene prediction algorithms. I decided to dig in a … of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User …

… informatic tools at no cost. The JGI and EMSL are supported by the DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

… for the next generation. Understanding the mechanisms by which they reproduce can help guide breeding efforts. For … into males and females, a development conferred by its sex chromosomes. In humans, males are … and, perhaps, more generally. … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 …

… on, scientists can determine the level of gene expression by the gradations. The Impact Metabolic engineering could … characteristics in an organism. The experiment was led by Hal Alper, professor and associate chair at the … These results show that this singular library synthesized by JGI was versatile enough for use in multiple …

… program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome … microbes play in nutrient cycles. … This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, … UC-DOE Prime Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads … genetic diversity.  In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career …

… computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), …

… model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming events. More time-series studies could help … models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. … next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few degrees. Eventually The Blob reached southern …

… microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when … Ocean roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … when sunlight is nonexistent, the bacteria are replaced by carbon-fixing archaea. Although Ace Lake was formed from …

… are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists … But zealexins are almost completely limited to maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis pathway, this study … to home in on precise biosynthetic enzymes elicited by fungal infection. They analyzed differences among mutant …