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… for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in … ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. They also produce …

The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the … abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have wondered, how can SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a … library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an … were previously missed in knock-out screens. These results show that this singular library synthesized by JGI was …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG … assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and …

Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental … the minimum amount of what’s allowed in drinking water. However, in the deeper sites, toxic chemicals remain.  To …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from …