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… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … Sullivan’s lab. Their research was enabled in part by the  Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Researchers have the …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey … research by then-Biosciences scientist Diane Dickel in 2017. In 2019, plant single-cell methods were officially … with resulting reports and a  perspective article . Publication: Shahan R et al.  A single cell Arabidopsis root …