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Mutations in the predicted DNA polymerase subunit POLD3 result in more rapid flowering of Brachypodium distachyon
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Nitrite Oxidizer Activity and Community Are More Responsive Than Their Abundance to Ammonium-Based Fertilizer in an Agricultural Soil
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AraR plays a more dominant role than XlnR in plant biomass conversion in Penicillium subrubescens
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Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities
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Mass spectrometry imaging–based assays for aminotransferase activity reveal a broad substrate spectrum for a previously uncharacterized enzyme
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the … oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. …
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Celebrating a Decade of Science through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has … UC Merced Senior Assistant Dean and CFO of the School of Natural Sciences Ernie Costello beamed as he spoke of what …
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When “The Blob” Made It Hotter Under the Water
… such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third … of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02- 05CH11231, the G. Unger Vetlesen and Ambrose Monell Foundations, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, …
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A structural and kinetic survey of GH5_4 endoglucanases reveals determinants of broad substrate specificity and opportunities for biomass hydrolysis
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LmbE proteins from Bacillus cereus are de‐N‐acetylases with broad substrate specificity and are highly similar to proteins in Bacillus anthracis
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NeLLi — Symposium on New Lineages of Life
The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of … biomedicine, as well as biotechnology. NeLLi August 24 – 25, 2023 Session Speakers:   Laura Hug , University of … University of Delaware Eunsoo Kim, American Museum of Natural History Roland Hatzenpichler, Montana State …
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Workforce Development & Education Outreach
… internship partnership that started in the summer of 2014. … Modeled on the JGI-UC Merced internship program, a similar collaboration with AAMU was launched in 2024.  … The CalTeach Summer Research Institute (SRI) at UC …
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