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… scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using … in  Nature .  Researchers started by collecting samples from Yellowstone’s hot springs, an extreme environment with … their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from a DOE Established Program to …

… to future environmental conditions. Additionally, insights from the genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane … and took more than a decade because there were pieces from multiple boxes, including some duplicates, to sort … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with assistance from partners at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology …

… within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have taken a look … team of researchers collected soil samples from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, … unburned, low, moderate and high-burn severity sites. From those samples, they reconstructed and examined over six …

… of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two … process, researchers collected microbial samples from wells at the site in 2007, 2009, and 2010. DNA was extracted from the samples that were sequenced by the U.S. Department …

… years ago, when eelgrass traveled across the ocean current from Japan to colonize the southern California and Mexican … … This study was supported by a PhD scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to L.Y. (number … HIDSS-0005) and by a grant to J. Eisen, J.J.S. and J.L.O. from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing … — that is, they are similar to previously known genes from isolate organisms, but we still aren’t sure of their … environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine ecosystems, etc.  “So, they must be doing something …