Scientists use neutrons to understand the secrets of extremophile bacteria
Friday, September 2, 2016 - 07:31
in Biology & Nature
Microorganisms represent the most numerous life on earth and the understanding of how they behave is integral to our own survival and well-being. Microbial life has an amazing flexibility for adapting to extreme environments—niches that are extraordinarily hot or cold, acidic or basic, salty as in the Dead Sea or at high pressure in great ocean depths—that would be detrimental to complex organisms. These organisms are known as extremophiles.