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… conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing prokaryote. … the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the prokaryote. “I thought they were eukaryotes; I didn’t …

… the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, … ecological and environmental processes, especially by modifying host cell metabolism and altering cell fitness. As the … studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced …

… is remarkably simple with only 7,500 genes, compared to 17,000 in the model alga Chlamydomonas . The genome is also … for national security, supply-chain resilience and diversifying industrial feedstock sources. …

… approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to … to ocean anoxia and nitrogen loss. Nature 536 (7615), 179 Hatzenpichler, R. et al. 2016. Visualizing in situ translational activity for identifying and sorting slow-growing archaeal− bacterial …

… CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial … active secondary metabolites and helping them identify and describe the functions of the biosynthetic gene … highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to identify which pathway corresponds to which metabolite. Finding a …