Two million tourists visit Yellowstone National Park each year to watch wildlife and view the spectacular scenery. Scientists home in on its hot springs, exploring their ecology and plumbing their scalding waters in search of highly adapted, heretofore-undiscovered microorganisms.Don Bryant, Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology at Penn State, and David Ward, a microbial ecologist at Montana State University, found a new heat-loving bacterium that survives by transforming light into chemical energy. Bryant characterizes finding this new chlorophyll-producing microbe as “the discovery of a lifetime.”
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