DRI research featured by Science Magazine
The October 10 issue of Science features Desert Research Institute (DRI) researcher Duane Moser’s contribution to more than 10 years’ work by an international team that presents the clearest view yet of Earth’s deep continental biosphere.
“For years in South Africa we kept detecting the same unusual microorganism in the deepest, hottest, most pristine samples,” Moser said. “Deeper than about two kilometers, it always dominated; but otherwise, had never been seen before. Was it real? Was it a contaminant? We never really knew for sure. The complete genome introduced today holds the answers to many of these questions. We still can’t grow the organism in the lab, but we have all of its genes: its entire genetic history and all of its tools for living at boundary between biosphere and lithosphere.” Read full story:
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