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Dr. Thomas Brock: The Extreme Microbiologist

Dr. Thomas Brock: The Extreme Microbiologist

Episode 40 Published 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Can you handle the heat? Aarati tells the story of the nature-loving scientist whose discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a microbe living in the hot waters of Yellowstone Park, helped make PCR one of the fundamental tools of biotech.   

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