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… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … the fungus and alga, either separately or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also …

… of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

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