Extreme engineering: Unlocking design secrets of deep-sea microbes
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Extreme engineering: Unlocking design secrets of deep-sea microbes

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It lives in deep-sea thermal vents, at temperatures above the boiling point of water, without light or oxygen, withstanding the enormous pressure at ocean depths of thousands of meters.