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… we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   … they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by …

… in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, … microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact many ecological processes, including carbon …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … phylogenomics) and machine learning to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical … geNomad. Nature Biotechnology . Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved …

… identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities that seek 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 …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. … Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic relationship to that of Eddie Brock and Venom, an alien “symbiote” that … how lichens function. One of their abilities that’s  now getting more scrutiny is how lichen is able to survive …

… tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct progenitors. … M. sacchariflorus , another species of Miscanthus that was sequenced. Understanding the evolution of … at CABBI and elsewhere are following up on these discoveries to develop new varieties of Miscanthus as a …

… of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to … of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That organisms make use of cellulose and hemicellulose is … at making use of those other two components, which requires getting through the lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle …