The bacteria Thermus thermophilus likes it hot. It was first discovered in the hot springs at Izu in Japan, where it thrives at an optimal temperature of about 65 degrees Celsius. Like all ...

Brock named it Thermus aquaticus. The discovery of this hardy bacteria revolutionized the fields of biology and medicine. "A lot of people thought (the research) was kind of a specialized sort ...

"Being a thermophilic bacterium, i.e. living at 65C and above, Thermus is a good model organism for biochemical ... and observed how the attacked bacteria expanded their Type III CRISPR arrays. Among ...

“In almost all of them, we got bacteria,” Brock says. The discovery of one of the species, Thermus aquaticus, would go on to revolutionize molecular biology by giving scientists a new tool to ...

The scientists collected heat-loving Thermus thermophilus bacteria in hot gravel on Mount Vesuvius and hot springs on Mount Etna in Italy; hot springs in the El Tatio region in northern Chile and ...

Taq polymerase is the heat-stable (thermostable) DNA polymerase extracted from the thermophilic bacteria Thermus aquaticus. Its predominant function is in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR ...

Our story this week begins with a tiny life-form invisible to the naked eye. Its name is Thermus aquaticus, a small bacterium originally found in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park.

In samples gathered at Obsidian Pool, using PCR and other methods, the team found many new life-forms within Archaea, a vast and anomalous domain distinct from bacteria. The park’s role in ...

In 1966, Brock and an undergraduate student, Hudson Freeze, discovered a new bacteria that thrived in waters above 70 degrees Celsius. Brock named it Thermus aquaticus. The discovery of this ...