Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat?

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par Kristen Skruber, Assistant Professor of Biology, Gonzaga University

Organisms are products of the environments they live and evolve in. While the physical world is governed by universal laws like thermodynamics and gravity, there are few laws of biology. An open question for biologists like me is how environmental conditions shape what organisms look like and dictate how they live, breathe and move.

Organisms can adapt to survive in a wide variety of conditions, from salty water to extreme heat or cold and changing climates. Most eukaryotic…

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