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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, … take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to help …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of … to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As such, they are considered …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 … than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the …

Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for … fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging …