Sep 24, 2012
Life in the Extreme: Uranium Toxicity Response Different in Nearly Genetically Identical Microorganisms
Life in extreme environments – hot acids and heavy metals, for example – can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Carolina State University. One single-celled organism from a hot spring near Mount Vesuvius in Italy fights uranium toxicity directly – by eating the…