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… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi … trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant … Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and metabolizing …

… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in …

… as Adjunct Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the … , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied clades, … the AAM Fellows in this cohort. Go here for the full AAM news release. Woyke is also one of the organizers for the …

… scientists have begun the complex process of uncovering the hidden secrets of soil viruses. The Impact The specific … three domains of life.  Using the IMG suite, JGI retrieved 142 of the GH75 AMGs, which encode enzymes that break down … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts …