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Adaptating a cyanobacterium to extremely high light intensities
Using adaptive evolution for making photosynthetic microbes tolerant to stressful conditions might be a shortcut for identifying protein mutations suitable to enhance the yield of crop plants.
Saltern Microbial Communities Dine on DNA
In our paper, we show that DNA can be used as a source of phosphorus by a microbial community of a saltern. Yet, these microbes do not consume just any DNA…
Operationalizing genomic epidemiology during the Nord Kivu Ebola outbreak, Democratic Republic of Congo
In July 2018, the National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), set up a pathogen genomics laboratory which allowed us to confirm epidemics of Ebola Virus Disease in the country and to establish epidemiological links between confirmed cases (1-3).
