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Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community … Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are …

… of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, workshops, and informal networking events. JGI will present both a genome center talk … Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can help advance your science. …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed … John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a …

… 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 … depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a …

… help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led … into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said … the known diversity of microbial genomes in the datasets, however, the team added that this information is still …

UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free … have maintained a regular shipment schedule, with plates arriving every couple of months. The question for the … the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been … the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when …