Behind-the-scenes of the Isolation of the Thermostable IgnaviCas9 From a Yellowstone Hot Spring
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 12, 2019, 2 p.m.
...these extreme environments.
Gearing up for sample collection at the hot springs
My husband, Paul Blainey,...all of the remote areas, including one hot spring requiring an overnight hike in.
Navigating challenges...the hot spring.
Hiking all day and processing samples by night was fun but also very tiring. It feels...Lab at Stanford University became interested in exploring biological dark matter – large tracts of the microbial... these microbes. From 16S rRNA sequencing, hot springs were known to be diversity hotspots containing ...aquaticus bacterium – was discovered at Octopus Hot Spring at YNP, and since then, many researchers have searched...temperatures and unstable ground around these hot springs make them extremely dangerous, we used telescoping...