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The River Group in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park is pictured here. Research on hot springs like this one is providing biochemical tools for biomedical tests and industries like biofuels, and is shedding light on fundamental questions in biology relating to the microbial cells and viruses--the intercellular parasites that infect them.
Image credit: David Mead, Lucigen Corporation
