BER Highlights

A novel method improves the accuracy of the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing tool scientists use to modify microbes for renewable fuels and chemicals production. It draws on quantum chemistry, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.

February 9, 2024

How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology

Improving genome engineering with quantum biology and artificial intelligence.

A bacterial virus inserting genetic material inside a bacterial cell during infection.

February 5, 2024

Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome

Scientists engineered a model bacterium's genetic code to make it virus-resistant and unable to exchange genetic material or grow without special media.

The Model for Prediction Across Scales framework uses unstructured Voronoi tessellation meshes for sea ice dynamics. This approach captures sea ice in greater complexity than other methods and allows researchers to focus on specific regions of interest.

January 31, 2024

Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models

Voronoi tessellation meshes focus on sea ice areas of interest and reduce computer resource needs.

Carbon and energy flow through a synthetic microbial community that converts cellulose to methane.

November 8, 2023

To Study Competition and Cross-Feeding, Scientists Build Synthetic Microbiomes

Modeling microbial interactions in synthetic communities offers insights into environmental processes.

Neutrons and X-rays provided insights on the binding of the COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 protein with a novel inhibitor, BBH-1, formed by combining atomic features of known hepatitis C and SARS-CoV-1 inhibitors (such as Boceprevir and GC-376, upper left).

November 6, 2023

Researchers Use a Novel Approach to Design a COVID-19 Antiviral Drug

Solving atomic structure and binding for improved antiviral drugs.

Scanning electron microscopy images of bacterial cells on semiconductor materials. Left: adapted Ralstonia eutropha on copper-tungsten-sulfide film. Right: Adapted R. eutropha on the facets of a Bismuth vanadate particle. Scale bars: 2 micrometers.

November 1, 2023

Imaging Shows How Inorganic-Microbe Hybrids Use Light to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Bioplastic

Scientists develop a multimodal imaging approach to study microbe–semiconductor biohybrids at the single-cell to single-molecule level.

Myo-inositol transporters affect colonization via cross-kingdom signaling. By exporting myo-inositol, plant cells trigger bacteria to swim toward the plant.

October 18, 2023

Signaling Across Kingdoms to Build the Plant Microbiome

Scientists discover a mechanism for plant-microbe interactions.

The locations of chloroplast proteins reveal the spatial organization of the chloroplast.

September 27, 2023

Scientists Build a Spatial Atlas of the Chloroplast Proteome, the Home of Photosynthesis

By collecting the locations of 1,000-plus chloroplast-associated proteins, the atlas offers insights into protein functions and chloroplast organization.

By introducing the gene PtLecRLK1 into a perennial grass, roots can now be colonized by a non-native ectomycorrhizae fungus known as Laccaria bicolor that grows between root cells and beneficially interacts with the plant host.

August 9, 2023

A Single Gene and a Unique Layer of Regulation Opens the Door for Novel Plant-Fungi Interactions

Scientists find the key to engineering plant signaling to allow colonization by beneficial fungi.

The chemistry and biology of environmental systems, one of the causes of color differences in waters, vary tremendously over space and time. That variation has significant effects on how ecosystems function, including the production of greenhouse gases.

July 28, 2023

Novel Metric Examines the Role of Organic Matter and Microbes in Ecological Communities

Scientists find interactions between organic matter in river corridors and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbes and chemicals

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