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Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … as well as the way in which those microorganisms break down nutrients, grow and repair themselves or eliminate waste. …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within … spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single … cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And eventually, their …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … microbiome data. In other environments, such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … that we use as indices. So it’s really quite a broad ecosystem approach. And that led me to get even more …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … to sudden drops in salt levels, enabling it to take in more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with …