100 trillion microbes live in each of our bodies. A billion trillion trillion exist in just the oceans. Adding in air, trees, plants, dirt and animals makes that number nearly unfathomable.
Argonne National Laboratory Biosciences Division ecologist Julie Jastrow and colleagues recently published work showing the impact of soil vegetation and moisture on terrestrial carbon recovery.
GM/CA-CAT Beamline Scientists Robert Fischetti and Shenglan Xu, both of the Argonne Biosciences Division, led a team of researchers that won an R&D 100 award for the development of an X-ray beam collimator.
While most of us are focused on life above ground, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are trying to understand the drama unfolding beneath our feet.
At a small site on the Batavia campus of Fermilab, ecologist Julie Jastrow of Argonne National Laboratory pushes the scientific frontier in a new and exciting way: She watches the grass grow.
In order to study protein structures, biologists must turn what is essentially a soup of purified protein into crystals that have a consistent and ordered structure.