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… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There … for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for …

… CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial … for carrying CRISPR into microorganisms. CRAGE (Chassis-independent Recombinase-Assisted Genome Engineering) is a … By employing CRAGE, researchers are no longer limited to using model host microbes; theoretically, any microbe can …

… feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and … been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like … microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and …

… 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research … the plants to harvesting the plants and extracting DNA. They also analyzed 16s amplicon data to determine … lab. We've been focused on analyzing plant microbiome data using different programming languages such as Python, Bash, …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of … isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in … was done through the JGI Community Science Program . Using an ecology metric called beta diversity, the team …