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… capabilities — and it’s open to scientists at any career stage, anywhere in the world, for free. We accept new projects related to energy and the environment several times a year. A few proposal calls have …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

… the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … (Nachwuchs-gruppe “Dr. Alexander Probst”), and the NOVAC project of the German Science Foundation (grant number DFG …

… the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic … to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz established a single-cell-based …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … cracked open the genome of another polar species, the green alga Microglena sp. YARC, which also contains expanded … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of … CRISPR-Cas9 that enhanced their ability to redirect the carbon in the cells toward particular pathways. In this …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … evolution of eukaryotes, and Saganbacteria were named for Carl Sagan, a renowned science popularizer and communicator …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine … or its origin. As a result, these genes were typically discarded from any analysis as useless information. These …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are … Group to better understand what this sulfur-oxidizing, carbon fixing bacterium was doing in the mangroves. …