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… of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. … are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic recycling by following their lead.            …

… within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and … podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome … rumen microbes are awesome and this is just another example why.” …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … that colonizes Brock and gives him super strength. For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though … revive in mere seconds or minutes — a trait that could help improve crop drought resilience. It’s a superpower even …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.       Despite advances in …

… highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 … a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. I-Min Chen ,  Natalia Ivanova ,  Nikos … CheckV , an automated tool to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes. …