These microorganisms, already known for their astonishing resistance to the vacuum of space, ionizing radiation, and ...

Young was part of the research team that first found the giant viruses in Yellowstone's Midway Geyser Basin and identified many of the archaea as thermophiles, which means they thrive in hot ...

NOVA: By thermophiles do you mean heat-loving organisms ... NOVA: You mentioned earlier that there are low-temperature Archaea that no one has been able to grow in pure culture.

By comparing the open reading frames from finished or nearly complete genomic sequences of 45 species of Bacteria, Archaea and Eucarya, we identified 23 proteins conserved across all species and ...

All of these separations are based upon unessential characteristics of classification. In the light of this fact, the thermophilic group seems to be a homogeneous one, the members having in common all ...