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Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity … aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it … it was just something curious, some white filaments that needed to be attached to something in the sediment like a …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has … Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, along with researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute, the …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been … Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, along with researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute, the …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida … evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover … encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US Department of …

… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the … Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the …

… researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … and dominant populations in oxygen-poor environments without oxygen deep below ground. These archaea fix carbon … the behavior of a particular candidate virus under a microscope. The viruses were adsorbed by the cells, which then …

… link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 … Olpidium attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene … root. Upon maturity, the cucumber roots were rinsed with cold water to stimulate the release of zoospores by Olpidium …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — … of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique … seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an extremely hot, …

… is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in … Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Recently, Lawrence, in collaboration with researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National … project involved developing an algorithm and although the scope of work was established before he began, Lawrence …

… in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, …

Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse … Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …