Thermophiles
Thermophiles: biology and technology at high temperatures Frank Robb (Editor), Garabed Antranikian (Editor), Dennis Grogan (Editor), Arnold Driessen (Editor)
Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0849392144
DDC: 579.31758
LCC: QR84.8
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Summary:
"Thermophiles: Biology and Technology at High Temperatures presents a
cogent summary of the progress made in studying these extrernophiles
and speaks directly to the implications of that progress. Much is
being learned from the study of thermophiles, especially our
understanding of fundamental biology at the molecular level and the
genetic mechanisms that permit adaptation and survival. By studying
this extreme example of life, its subtle, yet exaggerated response
mechanisms, and its development over the course of many short-lived
generations, we may begin to understand the mechanisms in a number of
diseases linked to improper protein folding, and also begin to more
fully understand the ingenious design of DNA, and all that such an
understanding implies regarding the health and survival of human life
in a rapidly changing environment."--BOOK JACKET.
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