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… are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone …

… is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team …