The science behind COVID-19 PCR tests can be traced back to two microbiologists' discovery in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. ... Brock named it Thermus aquaticus.

Thomas Brock in 1992 at a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. It was there, 26 years earlier, that he found Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that would be used to develop the chemical ...

Thermus aquaticus was discovered by Thomas D. Brock and Hudson Freeze in Yellowstone National Park in 1969. The bacterium is ...

Thermus aquaticus was isolated by Tom Brock back in the 1960s, and after he isolated this organism, other researchers purified an enzyme out of this organism called Taq polymerase. That's the ...

Dr. Thomas Brock at Mushroom Pool in Yellowstone National Park in 1967, where he and student Hudson Freeze discovered Thermus aquaticus. Public domain. PCR testing is a process that scientists use to ...

The photograph above, which I took on my recent trip to Yellowstone National Park, shows Morning Glory Pool, a hot spring that is a short h. Life is capable of thriving in the most inhospitable places ...

More than a third of Yellowstone, ... devoted entirely to America’s first national park. ... heat-loving bug that Brock named Thermus aquaticus.

His discovery of thermophile bacteria at Yellowstone National Park in 1966 eventually enabled the development of tests for COVID-19. ... (70°F) which they named Thermus aquaticus in 1967.

Today, on August 25, 2016, the U.S. National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday. From the founding of the first park — Yellowstone — to today, the park service has protected and ...

Key ingredient in coronavirus tests comes from Yellowstone’s lakes. A curious life-form that lives in the park’s thermal pools makes a protein that changed the course of biomedical history.