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… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) … the natural world. The Impact From the polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has …

… to adapt to stress and rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective …