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… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

… single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic  microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … devices we recently developed allow us to produce multi-monodispersed droplets in a two-dimensional plane by …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential …

… who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

… to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … These kinds of data could open opportunities along multiple avenues, including agriculture, climate modeling, …