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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … redundancy. To understand how founder AT enzymes became integral to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a …

… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When … Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … the process hinges on referencing to existing genome sequences.  Some of these proteins are what the scientists …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they …