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… PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary In New Mexico, the city of Española, the Santa Clara Pueblo and its nearby rural …
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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. Microbial …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … than even carbon dioxide. The EPA attributes one-fifth of all methane emissions to livestock and roughly one-third …
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… 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) … and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel …
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… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and potential of regulon identification by in vitro … This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Contract No. …
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… The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to …
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… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the …
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… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean ( Glycine max ) …
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… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … place in evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes …
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… Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … December 7 9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … Center eLightning Theater IV: Kuno Kasak, University of Tartu (lightning talk): “Wetland Restoration on Intensive …
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