The genetic blueprints for four strains of phytoplankton -- some of the world's smallest photosynthetic organisms -- have been unraveled, a development that could improve climate modeling and the creation of new energy sources.
An interview with Craig J. Venter on his plans to sequence the genomes of the ocean with the goal of engineering "a new species of microorganism from scratch ? to improve metabolic function by orders of magnitude so that we can make biological CO? scrubbers for power plants."