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… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … The more the better. We want to put at least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in … spectrometry (LCMS).  We do a hydrolyzation of the DNA and we look and quantify the isotopomers. We …

… reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of … when he returned to the Gros lab as a postdoctoral fellow. When he applied to the discovery-based position at the … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

… in the brewer’s/baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative … from across the fungal Tree of Life, but they also highlight the corresponding need to be able to assign functions … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … Nature .  Researchers started by collecting samples from Yellowstone’s hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic diversity that would help narrow down potential …