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… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through …

… Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … Biohub, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … and Verstraetearchaeota lineages. The archaeal genome was detected in samples collected by Stephen Quake’s …

… biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide … multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the … Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding solutions to clean energy and environmental challenges. And many … now IGB-wide ZERO Waste Initiative began its most ambitious project yet: a special recycling program to recycle lab …

… single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority … archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the …