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… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines to “learn” features. State of the … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … scientists to interrogate the roles that terpenes play in nature. The research collaboration has been incredibly … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

… Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem … workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their functional …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and … functions. It plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which … metal corrosion in oil pipes. Scientists have tried to study cyclic di-GMP and cellular networks with fluorescent …