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CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to … in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by combining it with CRISPR.  By employing CRAGE, …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … to the atmosphere. Peat bogs also serve the ecosystem by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … biofuel production and more. … This work was funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different … This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew culturing, …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with … microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when … occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …