Biotechnology: In Industry, Extremophiles Begin to Make Their Mark

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This month, a Rochester, New York-based company called Genencor International introduced a new detergent additive that it promises will make cotton clothes look like new through hundreds of washings. That may sound like a routine claim in the detergent business, but it is based on a protein that is far from ordinary. The additive, an enzyme called cellulase 103, was taken from an extremophile—a microbe that...

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