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… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to … how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse gases,” Kaze said. “It’s an exciting time in the field …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … bacteria, millions of  microbes govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out important environmental processes like  …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … helped LanzaTech researchers tame gene expression in the organism Clostridium autoethanogenum. The microbe can …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those …

Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … the ocean; this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology …

… at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens …