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David Hibbett 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.  …

… year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an uncultured symbiont. The single cell …

As a first-generation college student, I never really entertained the possibility of working at a national laboratory. However, through the … and different opportunities that could be available once I complete my PhD program. …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone … the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome. …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …