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… molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our understanding of genome science, organisms, and ecosystems at the molecular level. Integrating genomics with … processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  …

… to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists … first episode you’re checking out, you probably want to go back and listen to the first two parts ( part 1 is here and … lots of new molecules being discovered lots of new things making it to market and they wanted to keep that trend the …

… … DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger … roles of these compounds? Can we perform studies such as looking at the distributions of different classes of …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their … biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — …

… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant … alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is … applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be spotted with a striped … affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What we’re really doing is looking for a particular gene found in all inoviruses, and … Instead, she said, the inoviruses she studied “piggyback” off the anti-CRISPRs made by the co-infecting phages …

… of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have …

Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One … a Marvel Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic relationship to that of Eddie Brock and Venom, an alien … generally anticipated that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, … in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. … is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging …