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… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest recovers after a wildfire. The Impact Healthy forests store … process.  Summary Most studies on post-wildfire soil microbiomes have focused on marker gene analyses, which take …

… synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new technology developments – has advanced their work on the world’s most … is wild,” and admitting, “friends give me a hard time for that.” But the title brought him back to his first … just a collection of some of the folks, who’ve been pushing forward these techniques and, and making all kinds of super …

… how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but … Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that … Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  in situ hybridization to confirm the microorganisms …

… addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in …