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Science 13 October 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5234, p. 226
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News & Comment

Michael Milstein

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming--At a meeting in Yellowstone, park managers outlined proposals that would give the park a share of any profits derived from hot-water microbes collected from Yellowstone's hot springs. One such microbe yielded the enzyme at the heart of the polymerase chain reaction. A sidebar describes the recent identification of three Yellowstone bacteria that appear to be the most primitive life forms yet discovered.




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