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… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this … the ability to reconstruct complete genomes of individual, unknown microbes in the community. Since the inception of … a team of researchers has been working on improving methods for isolating and characterizing entire microbial genomes …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the algae were expressing, the team sequenced their …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to …

… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … approach to infecting and metabolically reprogramming the bacterial host, which was transformed into two very …

… environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a …