SciShow: How Extreme Microbes Are Helping Us Test for COVID-19

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Computational Biology course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Microbes that live in extreme environments, like geysers and hydrothermal vents, are able to survive in extreme temperatures. Scientists have figured out ways to use this thermostability to supercharge DNA studies, including the study of fast-mutating viruses like COVID-19. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.jbc.org/content/280/49/e46.full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16590331 https://www.jbc.org/content/233/1/163.long https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26554401 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26850/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21541/ http://doi.org/10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2000_3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8432 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5781580 https://doi.org/10.1038/435235b https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2012.74.4.9 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9876292 https://www.fda.gov/media/136151/download Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/yellowstone-national-park-30-3w8cczg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/silex-spring-at-yellowstone-national-park-0kjscw9 https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1zqa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EscherichiaColi_NIAID.jpg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138674#authcontrib http://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/3 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/forensic-science-gm862202454-142874627 https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/49557550751/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/5277255059/in/album-72157635360690997/ https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dna-sequence-blue-dna-structure-with-glow-science-background-futuristic-technology-dark-blue-background-with-space-for-text-b-6dqex1ejp5f1m3h https://www.videoblocks.com/video/dna-sequence-blue-dna-structure-with-glow-science-background-futuristic-technology-dark-blue-background-with-space-for-text-b-6dqex1ejp5f1m3h https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/genetic-research-at-the-laboratory-gm168324040-17000289 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/dna-replication-gm912734772-251270149


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