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… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …

… to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … “ Advanced analytics for uncovering virus dynamics and functional potential ," is among the five focused on tool …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are …

… 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, researchers take a look at …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA … Computational Sieves to Filter Sequences There are more microbes on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the … users can leverage to create a more complete picture of how microbes control useful chemistry in other organisms.  …