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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. …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … Research and operated under Contract Numbers DE-AC02–05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05–76RL01830 (EMSL). This work was funded …

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 …

… 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 … food web and change the oceans as we know them. At the base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing …

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 … genes were essential to  Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of  Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. Since … think like it’s, it’s this unique time where the preceding 300 years, that change was not occurring at that pace, …

… 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 …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time … 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 … immense collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, … for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. Wright AV …