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… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like …

… gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are …

… data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations … Biological Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (Bio-SANS) instrument available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center … many types of sample-associated data and link sample records to other public data sets. Q:  Does NEON have or plan on …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was … Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of …

… fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley …

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