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The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest … to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

… bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at … in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities dedicated to …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on … Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. Since …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … immense collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, …