Proteins from “auxiliary” genes in soil viruses play a role in the carbon cycle and climate, scientists have found.

A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Forms of nitrogen released by nitrogen-fixing bacteria differ across sampling scales and in structured environments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

A novel ecological measurement uncovered interactions between river corridor organic matter assemblages and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbial taxa and molecular formula types.

PNNL scientists have developed a new mass spectrometry method for in-depth analysis of proteins in individual cells.

New data analysis approach gives researchers deeper understanding of microbial ecology and evolution.

Data from increasingly complex mass spectrometry instruments met with adaptable data analysis solution.

Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism.

Study reveals importance of accounting for micrometer scale distribution of substrates to predict carbon emissions from soil.

Researchers characterize protein signatures that indicate Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19 patients.

Simulations reveal advantages of using new model vs. allometric scaling for risk assessment.

A multi-institutional team has developed a deep learning framework to identify novel molecules as drug candidates.

Soil moisture influences both the activity of soil DNA viruses, as well as the composition and abundance of RNA viruses.

Knowing which bacteria in a community are involved with carbon cycling could help scientists predict how microbial carbon storage and release could influence future climate dynamics.

Hypergraphs can more faithfully identify important genes in complex immune responses.

The web-based tool, called PLATIPUS, is publicly available and interacts with publications available in the CovidScholar database.

New quantum chemistry pipeline can help predict the effects of bioengineering.

High-throughput biochemical assays targeting a vital viral protein identified one molecule out of more than 13,000 with promising antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2.