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For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In … single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey in different ways. They have the … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host …

… ongoing and many plants, including agricultural staples and candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, are recent polyploids. … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a … “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, …

… dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To … must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For … prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest … into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make …

… marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that … challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent … evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall …

… the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations … the discovery of miniature CRISPR-associated proteins that can target single-stranded DNA. Such proteins have been … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …