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… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … it to usable organic compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) collaborative science initiative between the JGI and …

… at the University of California, Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, … biosensor that can produce both large signal changes and high signal intensity for imaging. The work was enabled in … Ec YcgR, within the Nano-lantern scaffold. They then mined sequence databases for homologous YcgR proteins and chose a …