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P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas … can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in its environment, this alga … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt …

… earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful of graduate students summer research … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

… can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct … gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 …

… specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  … that to include six more species, so in total, we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science … Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. …

… have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial … the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic … advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more efficiently …

They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their … one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and …

… and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively …