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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines to “learn” features. State of the …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The work was co-led by Victoria …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … of which microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step further, using both DNA …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research consortium led … Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds as part of a startup grant of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for …

… In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Pennacchio received his Ph.D in …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … out to characterize the transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their …