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Tag: microbes

Expert Interview: Nigel Mouncey

A man with glasses in black suit poses in front of close up pictures of plants

What’s in a Name for a New Fungal Strain?

Tamas Torok collecting field samples in the Uzon Caldera, a volcanic environment located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, to find extremophiles.

A New Way to Make Chemicals Not Found in Nature

New Technique Gets the Drop On Enzyme Reactions

A GIF showing the new process

The Story Behind Our Infinitely Recyclable Plastic

Meet EcoPOD: Berkeley Lab’s High-Tech Growing Chamber

A masked scientist handling a sample in the EcoPod

Cataloging Nature’s Hidden Arsenal: Viruses that Infect Bacteria

A false-color transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall

How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas? Tips from a Methane-Eating Microbe

Microbe “Rewiring” Technique Promises a Boom in Biomanufacturing

Focusing in on Aquatic Microbes: Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Grant for New Microscopy Approach

Photosynthetic algae

Study Gains New Insight Into Bacterial DNA Packing

Scientists Explore Links Between Genetics, Gut Microbiome, and Memory