"I have heard of a future possibility of mining asteroids for minerals. How would one go about finding asteroids that have important minerals?"
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Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
December 21, 2006 / Posted by: Shige Abe
Scientists from NAI’s University of California, Berkeley Team report in this week’s Science on their use of shotgun sequencing to uncover three novel archea present in all biofilms growing in pH 0.5 to 1.5 solutions within the Richmond Mine, California. Their results inform the problem of characterizing microbial communities and lineages which are difficult to cultivate.
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