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… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other …

… teaches the A-Level Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Biology class at Boca Raton Community High … own high school biology teacher, who helped connect me with internships and training at the Clorox Company and Lawrence … high school in a few months, Benskin shared his own reflections on the experience. “’Doing science’ is something …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a … information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, RNA viruses store their …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software … can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have …

… single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority … everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. In a recent … the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those interactions may in turn impact …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … this to untangle which microbes ate the compound and how much they ate.  These analyses provide granular insight into … set up a broad experiment to compare results between labs. Their labs, as well as Pett-Ridge’s group, will assemble …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced community …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial … over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said …