Life in the extreme

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 heavy metal and acquiring energy from it.

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