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… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the Lab, the Sustainable Garden Club, hosted a … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity … and compared them with those found in modern plants. They discovered that ancient algae already possessed genetic …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of their groupings.  One pivotal effort along these lines came from … and function of this protein. Starting from a gene, they’ve discovered an interesting zinc-mirror heme site that plays a …

… Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …