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DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has secured a five-year extension on its lease with an option for an additional five years. The new lease enables DOE JGI to expand the current facility on its Walnut Creek campus to include a vacant 18,000-square-foot building, which will be renovated and opened in early 2008, and feature a new education outreach laboratory, bringing DOE JGI’s total footprint to 80,000 square feet.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

DOE JGI upgrades its Microbial Genome Analysis System

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Business Announcement

Rising to accommodate the scientific community's interest in harnessing the potential of the microbial world, the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has made Version 2.2 of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system available to the public.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Climate models consistent with ocean warming observations

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate models are reliable tools that help researchers better understand the observed record of ocean warming and variability.

In nature, proteins sweep up nanoparticles

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Here's a pollution-control tip from nature: Deep inside a flooded mine in Wisconsin, scientists from several institutions including the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a world in which bacteria emit proteins that sweep up metal nanoparticles into immobile clumps. Their finding may lead to innovative ways to remediate subsurface metal toxins.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, NASA

Exploring the dark matter of the genome

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

"Junk DNA" is what biologists used to call heterochromatin, the highly repetitive, gene-poor DNA concentrated near the centromeres and telomeres of chromosomes. With the publication of version 5.1 of the genome of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues, the term "junk" will be heard less often. Heterochromatin, it appears, is crucial to genome maintenance and cell biology.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

Microbes at work cleaning up the environment

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It may sound counterintuitive to use a microbial protein to improve water quality.

Journal: Science

A new understanding of crystal structure of actinide metals

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have a better understanding of how the crystal structure of some metals becomes stable through magnetism.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spores, researchers have revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from a spore to a vegetative cell.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory DARPA

Berkeley Lab, EPA studies confirm large public health and economic impact of dampness and mold

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A pair of studies to be published in the journal Indoor Air have quantified the considerable public health risks and economic consequences in the United States from building dampness and mold.

Adaptive optics leads the way to supermassive black holes

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Astronomers have discovered the exact location and makeup of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a collision of two galaxies more than 300 million light years away.

Journal: Science