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… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … roots one goes, the more bacteria show up. The data underscore what was already suspected: these microbial groups play …

… for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … to access the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since … ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) ( …

… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living opals” because of the strange, beautiful properties of their silica shells. … at both UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to find out. …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and … and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez are both  California …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and … samples, this study also tracks the enzymes these fungi use to break down wood, and compares genetic diversity between …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in adaptations … and from the FRM/FSER (FRM/FSER202302017064) to P.-M.D., from the CNRS to P.-M.D. and H.P. (80|PRIME …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently … genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex … shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene …

… Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …