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… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 percent of the microbe’s dry weight. In order to better harness these gobs …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using … while focusing on understanding the evolution and function of proteins involved in metal homeostasis. She began her …